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reach the floe, after consuming the best part of the 
day’s journey in effecting it; and when we halted 
to rest at half-past seven A.M., twelve hours’ labour 
had not been repaid by more than three miles and a 
half gained, on a N.N.E. course. 
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“ On the morning of the 20th we came to a good 
deal of ice, which formed a striking contrast with the 
other, being composed of flat bay-floes, not three feet 
thick, which would have afforded us good travelling, 
had they not recently been broken into small pieces, 
obliging us to launch frequently from one to another. 
These floes had been the product of the last winter 
only, having probably been formed in some of the 
interstices left between the larger bodies ; and, from 
what we saw of them, there could be little doubt of 
their being all dissolved before the next autumnal 
frost. We halted at seven A.M., having, by our 
reckoning, accomplished six miles and a half in a 
N.N.W. direction, the distance traversed being ten 
miles and a half. It may, therefore, be imagined 
how great was our mortification in finding that our 
latitude, by observation at noon, was only 82° 36' 52", 
being less than Jive miles to the northward of our 
place at noon on the 17th, since which time we had 
certainly travelled twelve in that direction. 
