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ever, after a delay of about half an hour, the 'Discovery ' 

 broke a way for us through the moving pack and we 

 were enabled to proceed. In this neighbourhood we 

 had great difficulty in recognizing the land by the 

 chart. According to latitude, Cape Frazer was more 

 than ten miles out of position, and Scoresby Bay six- 

 teen. I have retained these names, as given by Dr. 

 Kane and Dr. Hayes, and published by the United 

 States Hydrographic Office on the chart, without regard 

 to the necessary change in latitude, but at the northern 

 extremity of Kennedy Channel I have kept the names 

 given by Dr. Hayes in the latitudes he adopted. 



Arriving at Cape Collin son, I found that a large 

 iceberg, aground two miles distant from the land, had 

 locked in a floe which reached from the south point of 

 Eichardson Bay to Cape Collinson. The northern edge 

 of this floe received the whole pressure of the ice 

 drifting to the southward on the western side of 

 Kennedy Channel, and prevented our advance unless I 

 took the ships off into the middle of the strait. wing- 

 to the risk of drifting to the southward if beset, I 

 secured the ships at the southern edge of the stationary 

 floe, in a pool of water near to the iceberg. 



To the northward the ice pressing against the 

 southern shore of Eichardson Bay was closely packed, 

 but in the offing it was more open although it could 

 scarcely be deemed navigable. It set to the southward 

 during the flood and part of the ebb-tide ; for four 

 hours of the latter it remained stationary. As there 

 had been no wind, so far as we knew, to influence it 

 for several days, this may probably be taken as the 

 normal state of the current. The ice drifted about 



