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Tranflation of part of a Journal kept on Board the 

 Vrow Maria, Commander Martin Breet. 



N. B. The fun's altitudes were taken with an oclant, and 12 min. 

 allowed for the fun's femi- diameter, refraction, and dip of the 

 horizon ; the longitude from Teneriffj the miles 1 5 to a degree 

 at the equator, the bearings with a compafs unreclified. 



The 2 2d of April, 1 77 1 , failed from the Texel for Greenland. 

 8th of May, latitude, according to the run, 70 deg. 33 min. 

 longitude 19 deg. 22 min. faw the firft ice. 



13 ditto, latitude 74 deg. 50 min. longitude 24 deg. 35. min. 

 met with a border of ice. 



1 4 ditto, latitude by obfervation, 7 5 deg. 44 min. longitude 

 26 deg. 13 min. came againft fome ice. 



15 ditto, latitude 76 deg. 13 min. longitude 25 deg. 40 min, 

 faw Spitsbergen, the South Cape bore E. N. E. 14 miles. 



N. B. Drove about in the ice, made faft. to a field. 



25 ditto, in the morning faw the North Foreland, N. E. by E» 

 latitude 79 deg. 12 min. longitude 20 deg. 40 min. 



26 ditto, latitude by obfervation 79 deg. 10 min. 



27 ditto, againft the ice. 



28 ditto, paft through fome ice. 



29 ditto, got faft in the ice, faw two mips failing pretty freely 

 in the E.-N. E. 



N. B. in the ice till the 



7th of June got more room; beat to the Southward and made 

 faft to a field, faw land in the E. N. E. diftance 1 4 or 15 miles, 

 fuppofed it the Quade-hoek, latitude by obfervation, 79 deg. 58 

 min. made faft to the ice till the 



3 1 1 June 



