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Less than the direct distance between ti. -Mine 



an I B itter to be 



in the Longitude assigned to it by Middleton. 



When the many perplexing incidents which occ 

 during the survey of the coast are considered in 



:i with the Bhortnesa of the {"rind, during which 

 operations of the kind can be carried on, and the dis- 

 tance we had to travel before we could gain a place ot 

 Bhelter for the winter, I trust it will be judged that 

 \w prosecuted the enterprize as far as was prudent, 

 and abandoned it only under a well-founded convi 



i further advance would endanger the lives of the 

 whole party, and prevenl the knowledge of what had 



from reaching England. The active i 

 ance I received from the officers, in contending with 

 tli-- fears of the men, demands my wannest gratitude. 

 Our researches as for as they have gone, Beem to 

 favor the opinion of those who contend for the practi- 

 cabilit; North-Wi .-' P T oeral line 



of coast probably runs east and v rly in the 



latitude e to Mackenzie's River, the Sound 



into which Cotzebue entered, and Repn 

 very Little doubt can, in my opinion, 



■ inued * a, in or about that line 



of direction. The ex: : whales, D this 



part of the iced by the whali found 



in Esquimaux Cove, may be i i as an 



ment lor an open Bea ; and a . m with Hud- 



