A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . Greenlandmen, packedy the ice at the edges ap-pearing rough, and piled up; this roughnefs and heightI imagine to proceed from the fmailer pieces being thrownup by the force of the fea on the folid part. During thetime that we were faft amongft the Seven Iflands, we hadfrequent opportunities of obferving the irrefiftible force ofthe large bodies of floating ice. We have often feen apiece of feveral acres fquare lifted up between two muchlarger pieces, and as it were becoming one with them;^nd afterwards this piece fo fo
A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . Greenlandmen, packedy the ice at the edges ap-pearing rough, and piled up; this roughnefs and heightI imagine to proceed from the fmailer pieces being thrownup by the force of the fea on the folid part. During thetime that we were faft amongft the Seven Iflands, we hadfrequent opportunities of obferving the irrefiftible force ofthe large bodies of floating ice. We have often feen apiece of feveral acres fquare lifted up between two muchlarger pieces, and as it were becoming one with them;^nd afterwards this piece fo formed afting in the fame•manner upon a fecond and third; which would probablyhave continued to be the efieQ, till the whole bay hadbeen fo filled with ice that the difierent pieces could havehad no motion, had not the ftream taken an unexpededturn, and fet the ice out of the bay. igth. Weighed in the morning with the wind atN N E. Before we got out of the bay it fell calm. I ob-ferved for thefe three or four days, about eleven in theevening, an appearance of dufk. JOURNAL. 20th. At midnight, being exadly in the latitude ofCloven Cliff, Mr. Harvey took an obfervation for the re-fradion; which we found to agree with the tables. Thewiud Southerly all day, blowing frefh in the noon fell in with a ftream of loofe ice, and aboutfour made the main ice near us. We ftood to theWNW along it at night, and found it in the famefituation as when we faw it before; the wind frefhenedand the weather grew thick, fo that we loft fight of it,and could not venture to ftand nearer, the wind beingS S W. 2 I ft. At two in the morning we were clofe in with thebody of the Weft ice, and obliged to tack for it; blowingfrefh, with a very heavy fea from the Southward. Thewind abated in the afternoon, but the fwell continued,with a thick fog. 2 2d. The wind fprung up Northerly, with a thickfog; about noon moderate and clearer; but coming on toblow frefh again in the evening, with a gr
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