A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . rd. 19th. At fix in the morning we had got to the among the loofe ice which lay very thick in fhore,the main body to the Northward and Eaftward: theland near Deer Field not four miles off, and the waterfhoaled to twenty fathoms. Here we found ourfelvesnearly in the fame place where we had twice been flopped,the ice fituated as before, locked with the land, withoutany paflage either to the Eaflward or Northward : I there^fore Hood back to the Weftward. At noon the Northern-moft part of Vogel Sang bore SWbS, d
A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773 . rd. 19th. At fix in the morning we had got to the among the loofe ice which lay very thick in fhore,the main body to the Northward and Eaftward: theland near Deer Field not four miles off, and the waterfhoaled to twenty fathoms. Here we found ourfelvesnearly in the fame place where we had twice been flopped,the ice fituated as before, locked with the land, withoutany paflage either to the Eaflward or Northward : I there^fore Hood back to the Weftward. At noon the Northern-moft part of Vogel Sang bore SWbS, diftant aboutfeven leagues. The weather being very fine, and thewind to the Eaftward, we were enabled to coall along theice to the Weftward, hauling into all the bays, goinground every point of ice in fearch of an opening, andftanding clofe along by the main body all day, generallywithin a fhips length. 20th. At half after three in the morning the land was outof figt, and we imagined ourfelves in rather more thaneighty degrees and an half j fome of the openings being near. //r/i «///n\Ji.!//i/iv///i,///u /hf// )///,,, //u Udd/ni/ re ,i/i,/n n,/ ^f//y -J- a/ 6 !• M JOURNAL. near two leagues deep, had Hattered us witli hopes ofgetting to the Northward ; but thefe Openings proved tobe no more than bays in the main body of the one in the afternoon, we were by our reckoningin about 80 34, nearly in the fame place where wehad been on the 9th. About three we bore away forwhat appeared like an opening to the S W; we foundthe ice run far to the Southward. 21 ft. We ftill continued to run along the edge of theice, which trended to the Southward. At noon we werein the latitude of 79° 26, by obfervation, which wastwenty-five miles to the Southward of our that the diredion of the ice led us to the South-ward, and that the current fet the fame way, I flood tothe Northward and Weftward clofe along the ice, to trywhether the fea was opened to the Northward by the
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