CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XI. 
PAG E 
Progress down the Western Coast of Baffin’s Bay — Meet with the Whalers — Account of some 
Esquimaux in the Inlet called the River Clyde — Continue the survey of the Coast, till 
stopped by Ice in the Latitude of 68j° — Obliged to run to the Eastward — Fruitless 
attempts to regain the land, and final Departure from the Ice — Remarks upon the pro- 
bable existence and practicability .of a North-West Passage, and upon the Whale- 
Fishery — Boisterous Weather in crossing the Atlantic — Loss of the Hecla’s Bowsprit and 
Foremast — Arrival in England. . . , . . . . .271 
APPENDIX. 
NO. PAGE 
I. An Account of the going of the Chronometers of the Hecla and Griper . . iii 
II. Lunar Observations . . ; . . . . . . xxi 
III. Observations to determine the Latitude and the Longitude by Chronometers . lxi 
* 
IV. Abstract of Observations on the Dip of the Horizon at Sea, with Doctor Wollaston’s 
Dip Sector, in 1819 and 1820 ....... ci 
V. Magnetic Observations ........ cv 
VI. Table of Days’ Works kept on board the Hecla ..... cxliii 
VII. Tide Table in Winter Harbour, Melville Island . . . . .civ 
VIII. An Account of Experiments to determine the Acceleration of the Pendulum in dif- 
ferent Latitudes ......... clxi 
IX. Remarks on the State of Health and Disease on board the Hecla and Griper . clxvii 
