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but there was so much sea on at the time, that we 
never got sight of him after leaving the ship. A 
whale was also seen this evening, for the first time 
since we returned to the eastward. I may also 
remark, that we passed some icebergs to-day, for 
the first time since we left this place last year. 
Friday, September 1st.— We passed Possession 
Bay last night, and have been running all this day 
to the southward, within a few leagues of the coast. 
At three o’clock in the afternoon we came abreast 
of an opening, which agrees in its situation with 
Pond’s Bay on the coast.. We stood in towards it 
until we were stopped by the ice, which lay off this 
part of the coast. It was estimated that we were 
at this time, from eight to ten leagues from the 
entrance of this inlet; but, notwithstanding we 
were at that distance, we are certain that if it is a 
bay, it must be a very deep one, for we could see 
nothing like land at the bottom of it. The capes 
that formed the entrance, and the land on both 
sides of it, as far in as we could see, were bold 
and very high. The angle which the capes sub- 
tended, measured 8° 44’, which, if the distance 
we were off be properly estimated, would make the 
entrance about six miles wide. 
Saturday, 2d. — We were running to the south- 
ward all day along the land, and generally between 
ten or twelve miles distant from it. The space 
was, for most part of the way, covered with ice, 
but the land being high, we had no occasion for 
going any nearer, for the purpose of a general 
survey, such as we are taking. In the course 
of the forenoon, we passed a place where there 
