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Ship Samuel Wright, Allen, March 18, 183~. Latitude 43^, 

 longitude 48° 43'. At 3 p. m. very foggy, came nearly in con- 

 tact with a very large island of ice, about 150 feet high and one 

 mile in length ; the weather extremely cold, kept the ship under 

 easy sail. At 5 p. m. fell in with an English brig, and were in- 

 formed we were standing for more ice, and that she had been for 

 five days surrounded with it, extending from latitude 45° to 43°, 

 and found no opening to the westward. Kept company during 

 the night, and fell in with more ice ; in the morning no ice in. 

 sight. 



Ship Fama, Winsor, March 183-, in latitude 44° 30', longitude 

 48°, fell in with an immense field of ice ; tacked ship to the east- 

 ward and stood off and on two days. Wind changed to N. E., 

 and run 45 miles S. W. and passed the point of ice in latitude 

 43° 25', longitude 48° 50'. 



The British Tar, Hanby, left the Gulf of St. Lawrence 29th 

 June, and passed through the Straits of Belle Isle. On the 3d 

 of July, about 15 miles eastward of Belle Isle, found the passage 

 quite blocked up with very heavy fields of ice, which obliged us 

 to put back to an anchorage. On the 6th again made the ice, 

 and found it more open : passed through about seventy miles of 

 it. On the eastern edge, fell in with nine brigs, a ship, and a 

 barque, standing off and on, waiting for a passage into the straits. 

 The icebergs were very numerous and immensely large, as far to 

 the eastward as longitude 48°. 



Ship Oneida, Funk, May 4th, 1841, latitude 43° 40', longi- 

 tude 50°, passed a number of large icebergs ; saw ice as far 

 west as longitude 53°. 



The brig Anne, of Poole, William Dayment, master, sailed 

 from Greenspond, Newfoundland, [N. E. coast,] 19th of January, 

 1821, and in the evening encountered several floating islands of 

 ice. On the following morning, at sunrise, the ship was so com- 

 pletely enveloped in ice that there appeared no means of escape, 

 even from the tops of the masts. The ice, in its whole extent, 

 rose about fourteen feet above the surface of the water ; it drifted 

 towards the southeast, and bore the ship along with it twenty 

 nine successive days. On the 17th of February, Capt, D, being 

 three hundred miles east of Cape Race,* in latitude 44° 37' 



* That this position was ascertained by chronometer appears doubtful. 



