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being a paddle-wheel steamer, unadapted to such navigation, did not pass through 
the drift ice so as to land on the east coast of Greenland, so long considered 
inaccessible to ships, She stood, however, along the coast, sounding occasionally, 
nearly as far as Prince Christian Sound, when a gale of wind compelled her to 
stand off shore. . 
From the time of this date, (July the 19th, to the 18th of August,) Sir 
Leopold M’Clintock was unable to proceed with his soundings in consequence of 
¢ontinued gales of wind, which drove out the drift ice from the bays and fiords, 
and prevented the Bulldog, on account of her paddles, from approaching the 
coast. After attempting to enter several of the more southern ports, Sir L- 
MClintock entered Godhaab, towing in with him the vessel containing the coal 
intended for his ship. The weather had been most stormy, no less than eight 
gales of wind having been experienced during the preceding fortnight. The 
quantity of loose drift ice on the coast was greater, according to the information 
of the Danish residents, than had been seen for many years, The Bulldog, after 
having surveyed the harbor, coasted southward to Cape Farewell, as far as the 
prevalence of drift ice would permit. From that point, at some distance from the 
land, a line of soundings was carried to Hamilton Inlet, on the coast of Labrador. 
The depths between the two points were very regular, the greatest being 2,022 
fathoms, 400 fathoms less than the direct route across the Atlantic, The exami- 
nation of Hamilton Inlet made by Sir Leopold was necessarily a hurried and 
imperfect one, but very little ice was seen on the Labrador coast. On the return 
voyage a second series of soundings were carried from Hamilton Inlet to South 
Greenland, where the Bulldog anchored, in Julianshaab, on the 29th September. 
The weather she had experienced during her voyage from Labrador was most 
severe ; she encountered no less than five gales of wind in eight days. After a 
cursory examination of some of the deep fiords which run inland for a consider- 
able distance—several of which are deemed admirably adapted for the reception 
of the cable—the Bulldog left Julianshaab, on her return to Iéeland, on the 3rd of 
October, and suffered some injury to her paddle floats and cutwater from the floe 
ice, which prevailed at the entrance of the fiord in larger quantity than had been 
known for nearly 30 years. 
The Bulldog, up to this time, had obtained no information whatever re- 
specting the Fox, and many began to entertain serious apprehensions that 
she had been beset upon the east coast of Greenland. Though made at the 
most unfavorable season, the examinations were said to be most satisfactory. In 
the channel of the various fiords a most considerable depth of water is almost 
universally found. On the 8th of October the Bud/dog again approached the coast 
of Greenland, close to the entrance of Prince Christian Sound, at the extreme 
south end of Greenland, and found so very little ice that Sir Leopold M’Clintock 
commenced taking a line of soundings in towards the fiord. His intention, how- 
ever, was frustrated by the springing up of one of those terrific easterly hurricanes 
which occasionally sweep the coast of Greenland. For 60 hours the wind blew 
with such terrific violence that no canvas could withstand its force for one moment, 
and the Bulldog had to lie to under “ bare poles,” keeping the engines going, in 
case of falling in with ice. For three days the vessel gradually drifted southward 
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