.e 8 THA BE RG EN, 
Let no one be ftaggered at the remotenefs of the voyage: I have before fhewn 
nftances, but from a contrary courfe, from weft to eaft. Part of the mafts of 
the Tilbury, burnt at Famaica, was taken up on the weftern coaft of Scot- 
land; and multitudes of feed or fruits of the fame ifland, and other hot parts of 
America, are annually driven on fhore, not only on the weftern fide of Scotland +, 
but even on thofe of more diftant Norway t, and Iceland. 
The iflands of the Seven Sifers, laft of known land, lie due north from North- Ea/}- 
Jand; the extreme point of the moft remote is in lat. 80. 42. They are all high 
primeval ifles: from a high mountain on the fartheft, the hardy navigators of 
1773 had a fight of ten or twelve leagues of fmooth unbroken ice to the eaft and 
north-eaft, bounded only by the horizon; and to the fouth-eait certain land laid 
down in the Dutch maps. Midway between thefe iflands and North-Ea/iland, 
Lord Mulgrave, after every effort which the moft finifhed feaman could make to 
accomplifh the end of his voyage, was caught in the ice, and was near experiencing 
the unhappy fate of the gallant Englifoman, Sir Hugh Willoughby, who was frozen 
in 1553, with all his crew, in his unhappy expedition. 
The {cene, divefted of the horror from the eventful expectation of change, was 
the moft beautiful and picturefque :—T wo large fhips becalmed in a vaft bafon, 
furrounded on all fides by iflands of various forms: the weather clear: the fun 
gilding the circumambient ice, which was low, fmooth, andeven ; covered with 
fnow, excepting where the pools of water on part of the furface appeared cryftalline 
with the young ice ||: the fmall {pace of fea they were confined in perfectly 
fmooth. After fruitlefs attempts to force a way through the fields of ice, their 
limits were perpetually contraéted by its clofing; till at length it befet each 
veffel till they became immoveably fixed §. The fmooth extent of furface was foon 
loft: the preffure of the pieces of ice, by the violence of the fwell, caufed them 
to pack; fragment rofe upon fragment, till they were in many places higher than 
the main-yard. The movements of the fhips were tremendous and involuntary, in 
conjunction with the furrounding ice, actuated by the currents. The water fhoal- 
ed to fourteen fathoms. The grounding of the ice or of the fhips would have been 
equally fatal; the force of the ice might have crufhed them to atoms, or have 
lifted them out of the water and overfet them, or have left them fufpended on the 
fummits of the pieces of ice at a tremendous height, expofed to the fury of the winds, 
or to the rifque of being dafhed to pieces by the failure of their frozendockq. An 
* P. 21, of this Work. + Voy. to the Hebrides. t Amen. Acad. vii. Rariore 
Norvegia, 477» || Phips Voy. tab. iv. § Same, tab. tii. 
q See thefe diftvefsful fituations in tab. B. of Fr. Marten’s Voyage, and Gerard le Ver, Voy. au Nord, 
. 19, edition 1606, 
we iz attempt 
UXXXIfI 
VOYAGE BY 
Lorp Mutecrave, 
IN 1773° 
