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VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY 
CHAPTER X. 
LEAVE WINTER HARBOUR — FLATTERING APPEARANCE OF THE SEA TO THE 
WESTWARD — STOPPED BY THE ICE NEAR CAPE HAY FURTHER PROGRESS 
TO THE LONGITUDE OF 113 ° 48 ' 22 ". 5 , BEING THE WESTERNMOST 
MERIDIAN HITHERTO REACHED IN THE POLAR SEA, TO THE NORTH OF 
AMERICA BANKS’S LAND DISCOVERED — INCREASED EXTENT AND DIMEN- 
SIONS OF THE ICE — RETURN TO THE EASTWARD, TO ENDEAVOUR TO 
PENETRATE THE ICE TO THE SOUTHWARD — DISCOVERY OF SEVERAL 
ISLANDS — RE-ENTER BARROW’S STRAIT, AND SURVEY ITS SOUTH COAST 
PASS THROUGH SIR JAMES LANCASTER’S SOUND, ON OUR RETURN 
TO ENGLAND. 
1820. 
August. 
Tues. 1. 
The wind still blowing fresh from the northward and westward, the ice 
continued to drift out slowly from the harbour, till, at eight A.M., it had left 
the whole space between the ships and Cape Hearne completely clear, 
and at eleven o’clock there appeared to be water round the hummocks of 
ice which lie aground off that point. In the mean time, our boats were 
employed in embarking the clocks, tents, and observatory, while I sounded 
the entrance of the harbour, in order to complete the survey, which no 
opportunity had offered of doing before this time. At one P.M., having got 
every thing on board, and the ice appearing to be still leaving the shore, we 
weighed, and ran out of Winter Harbour, in which we had actually, as 
had some time before been predicted, passed ten whole months, and a part of 
the two remaining ones, September and August. The mind is always anxious, 
however, to find some ground of encouragement and hope for attaining the 
object of its pursuit, and we did not fail to remember, on this occasion, that 
short as our season of navigation must of necessity be, we were about to 
begin that season on the anniversary of the day on which we had commenced 
