A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . rced to haul theboat over it to other openings. The weather exceedinglyfine and mild, and unufually clear. The fcene was beau-tiful and pi^lurefque j the two (hips becalmed in a largebay, with three apparent openings between the iflandswhich formed it, but every-where furrounded with iceas far as we could fee, with fome ftreams of water; nota breath of air; the water perfedlly fmooth; the icecovered with fnow, low, and even, except a f^w brokenpieces near the edges: the pools of water in the middleof the pieces were fr
A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . rced to haul theboat over it to other openings. The weather exceedinglyfine and mild, and unufually clear. The fcene was beau-tiful and pi^lurefque j the two (hips becalmed in a largebay, with three apparent openings between the iflandswhich formed it, but every-where furrounded with iceas far as we could fee, with fome ftreams of water; nota breath of air; the water perfedlly fmooth; the icecovered with fnow, low, and even, except a f^w brokenpieces near the edges: the pools of water in the middleof the pieces were frozen over with young ice. 31ft. At nine in the morning, having a light breezeto the Eaftward, we eaft off, and endeavoured to forcethrough the ice. At noon the ice was fo clofe, that beingunable to proceed, we moored again to a field. In theafternoon we filled our cafk with frefti water from the ice,.which we found very pure and foft. The Carcafs moved,and made faft to the fame field with us. The ice meafuredeight yards ten inches in thicknefs at one end, and fevea yards. \±±.^&-^^^
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