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a passage for the c Discovery ' into more open water. 

 As the ebb-tide made, the ice in Princess Marie Bay 

 commenced to drift to the eastward, and water-channels 

 opened between the ' Alert ' and the coast of Grinnell 

 Land ; but the ' Discovery ' being then surrounded by 

 ice we were delayed for a short time. In crossing the 

 bay the ice was moving so rapidly that the ' Discovery,' 

 although within a quarter of a mile of the ' Alert,' was 

 frequently unable to follow her through the same 

 channels. 



Entering by the western side of Norman Lockyer 

 Island, both ships were safely secured to the land ice in 

 Franklin Pierce Bay, on the southern shore of Grinnell 

 Land, at 10 p.m. The ice in the bay being one season 

 old and very rotten it denoted that there must have 

 been clear water along the shore when it was frozen 

 over the previous autumn. To the eastward the pack 

 being tight against the coast effectually prevented our 

 farther advance. 



Franklin Pierce Bay would afford fairly protected 

 winter-quarters, but so far as we could judge there is 

 little game procurable in the neighbourhood. 



At 4 a.m. of the 9th I landed half a mile east of 

 Cape Harrison accompanied by Captain Feilden and 

 Dr. Moss. A record was placed in a small cairn erected 

 on the spur of the limestone hills forming the west 

 side of Franklin Pierce Bay, two hundred feet above 

 high-water level. 



Observing the ice opening in the direction of Cape 

 Prescott, the ships steamed out of the bay, passing 

 between Walrus Shoal and the mainland, but after 

 clearing the shoal a large level floe prevented any 



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