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SECOND VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY 



May." " At six PM " P roceedin g in an E.N.E. direction, farther inland we came 

 at about seven miles' distance to a gradual ascent, and soon arrived on a high 

 hill, from which the sea was distant about three miles. The land was at first 

 tolerably regular, but as we proceeded the rocks became bold and abrupt, 

 and the snow was nearly all thawed from their eastern face. From the bare 

 state of the bluff we found it was a favourite resort of the deer, of which we 

 saw several, as affording them some withered grasses and moss which the 

 the thaw had left exposed, or which were buried so small a depth beneath 

 the snow as to be easily procured by scraping with the feet. At half-past 

 ten we stopped for the night, the thermometer being at 14°. 



14. " The morning of the 14th was calm but cloudy, and at six A.M. the ther- 

 mometer 11°. At half-past seven we descended the rocks, which I named 

 Adderley's Bluff, and found them precipitous near the sea. Passing 

 amongst the heavy grounded ice which lay at their foot, our road became 

 very difficult and fatiguing, the snow lying in such deep ridges as to oblige 

 us to take a very circuitous route. Having walked four hours, and crossed 

 two small bays, we stopped before noon on a low point. At noon, thermo- 

 meter 26°, latitude by meridian altitude, 66° 37' 50", and longitude, by chro- 

 nometer, 0°31 / 45" east of the ships. 



" At six P.M. we again moved forward and, crossing a bay of smooth floe 

 ice for two miles, came to a small rocky isle, due north of the place of ob- 

 servation. This island lay across the mouth of a very snug little cove, 

 which from its appearance we supposed likely to afford safe anchorage for 

 ships. Off the isle, on an E.b.S. bearing, is a small rocky shoal. Leaving 

 this we crossed a second bay of a mile in breadth, the ice of which gave the 

 same indications of deep water. After four hours' walk we rested for the 

 night, At ten P.M. thermometer 8°, weather cloudy, and much scud flying 

 from the south-east. 



15. " Small snow began to fall on the 15th, and the wind came from the east- 

 ward. At six A.M., thermometer 28°. At half-past eight we started and 

 crossed the ice about half a mile to a small island, whence we observed the 

 sea to run up W.N.W. Mr. Palmer and myself walked to its head, a dis- 

 tance of about two miles and a half, when we found it shallow, and full of 

 low gravelly isles. The breadth was about four miles. We here took bear- 

 ings, and then crossed the flat sea ice N.b.E., four miles, to the foot of a 

 high hill. The most distant eastern land bore N.E. Before we had crossed 

 over the mouth of the bay, which I named after Lieutenant Palmer, the 



