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past her, at the rate of a knot or more, directly out 
of the sound. With a similar rate and direction 
it passed all the deeper ice, forming a strong eddy 
running to the south-eastward; hut it was ob¬ 
served to carry all the thinnest ice before it. While 
we remained in the sound, I often observed, that 
when sailing across this tide in light winds, the 
ship could not be steered. Under a two-knot breeze, 
the ships in company were sometimes turned quite 
round. And, it was observable, when sailing 
nearly in the direction of the tide, that, on one 
tack, the ships could not be kept to, though each 
had its jib hauled down to assist the helm ; and, 
on the other, they could scarcely be kept out of the 
wind, under the best arrangement of the sails. 
The direction of the tide is so modified by the 
different inlets, and probably, also by the wind, 
that I could by no means determine its particular 
sets. Its general direction, however, in mid-chan¬ 
nel of the main inlet, was SE. and NW. by the 
compass,—nearly E. and W., true. 
We met with no dangers in this sound. There 
is, indeed, a small rock above water near Cape 
Hope, and a shoal near Cape Stewart; but at a 
fair distance from the shore, the navigation, as far 
as we had an opportunity of observing, is without 
encumbrance. About the south-eastern shore of 
Jameson’s Land, the water is more shallow than 
