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indented in the moft romantic planner that can be 
imagined. 
U the 21ft. At noon the fog was fo thick that 
we could fcarce fee a man on the forecaftie, and 
hearing two guns at fome diftance (the fignal for 
bringing to) we hauled our 'courfes. About half 
an hour afterwards, we fired a gun j but having no 
anfwer, we tacked, and fet our courfes, fore, and 
mizen flays ; apprehending that the fignal at noon 
was to tack, and that we mifled one gun. 
All the afternoon we fired guns at fhort intervals, 
but could hear no anfwer. At 7 there came on a 
flrong gale, which with the riplings we were con- 
tinually running through, made a very rough fea, 
the waves beating continually over the quarter deck : 
and if we add to theie, the thicknefs of the fog, and 
the great number of ice iflands we were amongft, 
our fituation mufl be allowed to have been truly 
dangerous : we weathered one ifland in the morning, 
but by about three or four times the (hip’s length, 
and though fo very near, we could not lee its top 
for the fog. 
i? July the 23d. About § pad 2, we made the 
ifland of Refolution. which forms the north fhore, 
at the entrance of Hudfon’s Straits, bearing from us 
N. W. b. W. It lies, by my account, in lat. 6o° 
29' | N. and long. 65° 9' W. 
O the 24th. This afternoon, being in lat. 6i° 
55 § N. and long, (by account) 67° 46', I made the 
following obfervations for determining the variation 
of the needle. 
Vol. LX. 
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Alt. 
