OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 



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some distance to the northward of where Fox turned back, and that the 

 band of ice from which we had now extricated our ships continues down to 

 tlie neighbourliood of Carey's Swan's Nest, producing the obstruction occa- 

 sionally met with by the Hudson's Bay ships on their return homewards in 

 the autumn. 



During the time we were beset in and near Lyon Inlet, advantage was 

 taken of the deep water to try its temperature at different depths, as shewn 

 in the following Table : 



The wind still favouring us after our leaving the ice, we made the land 

 near the Trinity Islands on the evening of the 18th, and passed Salisbury 

 Island the following day. IMecting with no obstruction whatever we ran 

 with a favourable breeze down Hudson's Strait, and at noon on the ^Sd had Tues. 23. 



3 Q 2 



