. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834 and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. OUR I'KOfJRESS ARRESTED. Donhly, therel'ore, was I },'ratoliil that the piimaiy object of the ^rvice had been providentially anticipated. Had it been otherwise, lie delay thus occasioned would have been slill more mortifying. July 81st.—A Iresh breeze from the southward sprung up about idnight; yet a thin crust of ice was formed on the pools of water bout the rocks. At daylight,
. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834 and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. OUR I'KOfJRESS ARRESTED. Donhly, therel'ore, was I },'ratoliil that the piimaiy object of the ^rvice had been providentially anticipated. Had it been otherwise, lie delay thus occasioned would have been slill more mortifying. July 81st.—A Iresh breeze from the southward sprung up about idnight; yet a thin crust of ice was formed on the pools of water bout the rocks. At daylight, the main body of the ice was found to e closely packed against the western shore, which extended Pftecn I twenty miles abreast of us, and thence bent i ito a deep bay, ending afterwards to the northward until it bore N. by W. and lentled with the icy horizon. The wind had so far acted as to drive f whole near a quarter of a mile away from the eastern sore, leaving thereby a clear passage for a length of fourteen miles direction. Heyond this we could not define any land, ex- ni a blue bluff, whose base was while with refra;;ted ice, and which irc still farther to the right. It was evident, therefore, that we ere at the narrowest part of the opening, where it would be most nvenient to cross; if, indeed, this were not the only place in which e could safely do so, in an undecked boat, already damaged from ie shocks she had received in the falls and rapids; and, however !\ious, as it may well be supposed I was, to achieve as much as ssible, I could not but be sensible that to have pursued the lane to i eastward, and, according to the Esquimaux's outline, rounded bluff to the southward, would only have been to depart more Jely from our course, and to retrograde instead of advancing. Nor ,i> this all: to have taken that course, amidst the obstacles which mounded us, might perhaps have involved us in perilous if not in ;extricable difficulties; for the westerly gale
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