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let urn by the way we came, and get round a point to 

 the Dorthward. Thia was, however, impracticable, 

 hannel being blocked ap by drifl ice ; and we 

 had uo prospect ofreli pt by a change "I wind. 



Thia detention was extremely vexatious, as we wi re 

 losing the benefit of a fair wind, and expending our 

 Btock of provision. In the afternoon the weather 

 cleared np, and several men went hunting, but they 

 were unsuccessful. During the day the ice 6 

 backwards and forwards in the harbor, moved by cur- 

 rents, not regular enough to des< rve the oame of tide, 

 and which appeared to be governed bythe wind. We 

 a diminution by melting in the pieces 

 mar ns. That none of this ice survives the summer 

 is i vi.lt nt. from the rapidity of its decay ; and because 

 no ice of Last year's formation was hanging on the 

 lurk-. Whether any body of it exists at a distance 

 from the Bhore, we cannot determine. 



The land around Cape Barrow, and to Detention 

 Harbor, consists of steep craggy mountains of granite 

 rising bo abruptly from the water's ed idmit 



of few landic even for a can",-. The higher 



parts attain an elevation of one thousand four hundred 

 or cue thousand five hunch and the whole is 



entirely destitute of vegetation. 



On the morning of the 27th the ice remained 

 stationary at the entrance ; we went to the bottom of 



