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another island lying to the east of it, say in long. 170° W., and to 
the northwest of Point Barrow, with a passage between it and the 
land I have just described. My reason for thinking so is this: We 
always find ice to the south of the known land, further to the south 
than we do the eastward of it. The current runs to the pein 
. we 
strong current setting to the northwest between those localities, 
unless prevented by strong northerly gales (for in such shoal water 
as the Arctic Ocean the currents are changed easily by the winds), 
which would indicate that there is a passage in that direction where 
the waters pass between two bodies of land that holds the ice, the 
one known, the other unknown. : 
I would add that the southwest cape of this island, described 
above, lies twenty-five miles distant from the Asiatic or Siberian 
coast. 
pe Schelagskoi. The ice melts earliest near the shore, and 
out difficulty, es ecially when assisted by steam in calms and 
ind Af i pe 
adverse winds passing Cape Jakan, there being n land 
to the , the ice is driven from the shore by these streams 
and scattered in fraements in the open sea seen by Wrangell, 
ld be from north to northwest, as 
_ Would permit, until north of the Laachow Islands, when 
