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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
As soon as the wind began to subside, the Fame 
made sail and proceeded to windward, in search of 
two of her boats yet absent. The Trafalgar at 
the same time making a signal, which we inter¬ 
preted to indicate a state of danger, we approached 
her as near as we prudently could, and then hove 
to, or stood off and on, the remainder of the day 
and succeeding night. 
In the evening, there was a short interval of par¬ 
tially cl ear weather. The land became vi sible from 
NE ^ j\ t . (per compass) to SW b W. The coast 
seemed to be an assemblage of islands, with inlets, 
some of them of considerable width, among them. 
Vandyke Cliffs were found to be distant 11J miles. 
This distance, with the bearing of these cliffs, and 
of other points of land before observed from Cape 
Moorsom, enabled me to determine their respec¬ 
tive positions. And it was remarkable, that the 
distances by protraction, and the estimated dis¬ 
tances of five or six headlands, several leagues 
from both the stations, generally coincided to with¬ 
in lj miles, and some of them exactly. 
Wednesday, 14 tli August. —The morning was 
calm and foggy; but very fortunately the sun be¬ 
came visible a few minutes before twelve o’clock, 
so that I obtained an excellent observation for the 
latitude, and afterwards got good sights for the 
longitude and variation. These observations were 
