SHIP LIBERATED. 
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make its way, we succeeded, far beyond our ex¬ 
pectations, in reaching a free and open naviga¬ 
tion, without any accident or damage. The free¬ 
dom now experienced, excited the most exhilara¬ 
ting sensations. In the morning a body of ice, 
Scarcely to be compassed by the eye from the 
mast-head, of a heavy compact kind, imprisoned 
us; in the evening we were completely at liberty. 
The John was left behind, the ice probably not 
having relaxed where she was beset, in the same 
degree as it did about the Baffin: before night, 
however, she was seen to be warping towards an 
opening to the westward, and making a sensible 
progress. This direction taken by the John, 
being opposite to that which we had pursued, 
soon separated us so fir, with a close body of ice 
between us, that we unavoidably parted 
pany. 
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