EVIDENCE AS TO ICE-DRIFT. 101 



refuge in a harbour. Frequent snow-storms and frost. On account 

 of icebergs and great masses of flue-ice enclosing the coast, it was 

 impossible to proceed on the voyage before the 23rd, when the ice 

 was found to be more open ; but after a few hours' sailing the 

 ice again obliged the captain to. put into a harbour. Closed in by 

 the ice until the 27th. The ice was now open, and the voyage pro- 

 ceeded until the 1st of May, when the ice compelled him to go into 

 a harbour. 



In this month violent storms, snow, and frost. From the most 

 elevated points ashore very often no extent of sea visible ; now and 

 then the ice open, but not sufficiently so for proceeding on the 

 voyage. 



At last, on the Gtli of June, in the morning, the voyage was con- 

 tinued ; but the same evening the ice enclosed the coast, and the 

 schooner was brought into " Bliesehullet," a port in the neighbour- 

 hood of Cape Farewell. 



The following day the voyage was pursued through the openings 

 between the ice; and the 18th of June the schooner arrived again 

 at Julianshaab. 



Whilst the masses of ice, as above mentioned, enclosed the coast 

 between Julianshaab and Cape Farewell, the brig LucinJe crossed 

 the meridian of Cape Farewell on the 26th of April, in lat. 

 58° 3' N. (101 nautic m. from shore), and no ice was seen from the 

 brig before the 2nd of May, in lat. 58° 26' n., and 50° 9' w. of 

 Greenwich. 



Further, Captain Knudsen, commanding the Neptune bound from 

 Copenhagen to Julianshaab, was obliged on account of falling in 

 with much ice, to put into the harbour of Frederikshaab on the 

 8th of May, 1852, and was not able to continue his voyage to 

 Julianshaab before the middle of June, because a continuous ice- 

 drift (icebergs as well as very extensive fields) was rapidly carried 

 along the coast to the northward. 



Captain Knudsen mentions, that during the whole time he was 

 closed in at Frederikshaab he did not a single day discover any 

 clear water even from the elevated points ashore, from which he 

 could see about 28 nautic miles seaward. 



Whilst the Neptune was enclosed by the ice at Frederikshaab 

 the brig Baldur, on the home passage from Greenland to < 'open- 

 hagen (see the foregoing Table), crossed the meridian of Cape 

 Farewell the 9th of June in lat. 58° 9' n. (100 m, from shore) in 

 clear water, and no ice in sight. 



From the above it is evident that the current from the ocean 

 around Spitzbergen, running along the e. coast of Grecnlaud past 



