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change of wind setting a lair body of ice upon us
we outland plyiug where we could find open waters
end fall in.with embalm., the first we bad wen, who
lactated us that none of the whale ships hid bees
able to get put 70f deg.; that the ice to the north.
ward was still fast. On the 14th called at the Whale
Islands, where there is a Dullish factory. The Dames
Resident came on board ; from him we could get little
inforteatioNexcept that the preceding winter WNW*
Tay were. On the 16th, we reached 70.82. N. no
clear water to be seen northward, made fast to an ice.
herg,abost a mileoff the 12,W. end of %limier Rare
Island. We found here mos* of the whale-fi.here
waiting for an opening to go north, the Limy to the
Southward hawing failed this season. Waygas is eight .
or nine miles long, twelve or fifteen herder* feet
high, uninhabited, some of the rocks basaltic.—
Coal is found near the surface on the N. E. part of
the island. Some grouse were shot, the cock per.
rectly.erhite, the ben not unlike that of Scotlead.--.
I saw one hare pure white. Cie the 2Gth the ice
opened a little to the northward, when we began to
warp and tow the ship through the slack, the winds
-light and variable, and frequent calms. On the 96th
were only 20 miles from Wsygat, where we -got
Into a piece of clear water that carried us to the land.
ice on the north side of Jacob's Right, lat. 70. 2f.
We found ourselves in 64. 17. W. per luaus, which.
agreed well with chronometers. We swung the
ship, and took azimuths on board at every font
points. Corresponding azimuths were taken the
same time on the ice. The observations were not
taken in so correct a manner as might be done to
form a just estimate of the deviation of the eem.
pass by ship's attraction. The idea here at .present
is, that the compasses are not attracted in a line
with the ship, but obliquely. From my own ob.
nervation 1 find that the bearings of distant objects
with the ship's bead north and south correspond*
which would not'be the case if the attraction
of the ship was not fore and aft, but athwart. The
azimuths taken with the ship's head north or south
generally agree. It is supposed likewise that the
error arising from the ship's attraction has increased.
with the variation and dip. As there were no ob•
servations made before leaving England on the
ship's attraction, we most have patience until the
variation it again decreased. I think that the error,
has been constant the whole voyage. The ship's
head at west gives, according to my own observe.
tion, an increase of variation 18 deg.; at east: a.
decrease of 16 deg. On the 27th we cast off front
the Ice, with the prospect of an opening, and cruised
about in a narrow pool till the 2d of July, whets
a fine fresh brute opened a passage for us. On the
3.i we were in 71.30.--on the 4th, 72.30. On the
7th, in lat. 74. we were again 'obstructed by the ice,
the bergs and flews much heavier than these hitherto
seen. We are now in the-same place that Win 100
years ago anchored. We find the Three Islands jest
as he describes them; he makes them in 74. 4.; we
make them 74. If. Baffin glees an hottest account
of them. We stretched to the westward on the 9th.
and 10th, bat found theses all fast. We ere now in.
daily expectation of the wind shifting to the N. E.
and blowing strong, which is the only thiog that will
do us good. It is strange that, at the same time of
the year, almost to a day, Baffin should have hesea
stopped by the ice in the same place; be likewise
stood west without finding clear set--his 'cermet
takes him to 78. N. but he does not say he anent
the top of the bay, or saw land there. Our voyage
hitherto has been very pleasant. Since the middle of
June we bad very fine weather, the thermometer in.
sun 76.—sometimes in the shade it is at a mean about
33. or 34. sometimes below the freeing point. For
five or six weeks we have only had occasion to take
in the first reef once. The water is as smooth as st
mill-pond all weathers. We have scarcely seen rain,
—our changes of weather are from cloudy to thick
fogs, and sometimes light falls of snow. Somatimoii
the sun shines unclouded the whole 24 hours. WO
hove only seen two whales, and have only heard done
'being killed since we have been here—they are ale
north of us. Bears are as scarce—one bas been seen:
A great number of the gull tribe have been shot, and.
we sometimes procure a mess of eider docks ; seals
see more abundant, but we don't trouble them.—
"The coast of Greenland, where we saw it, to the
southward of 70f. is higher than to the northward of
that latitude. Here the coast consists of many high,
bold, bluff-like head-lands, which, closer to, ass
found to be islands. The main land is one conti.
nued ridge of smooth snow, which appears like a.
cloud. l suppose the ground has not been uncovered
since the flood. The islands in general are clear of
snow. There are no inhabitants to the north of
72. 30. on this coast. We had some of the natives
on board from 68. 30. 7of. and 72f —they are all
the same people, the women dressed in the same
manner as the men, only their hair tied en the
crown of their head, and a small sort of peak un the
fore and after put of their jackets. We have been
so anxious to get on the more interesting part of one
voyage, that little attention has been paid to the
natives here. 'fbe most astonishing thing to be
seen here is the Ice.berge—their site and number er..
passes fancy. From the 66th degree to this, the; ea
is literally covered with bergs, and we see no end to
them; where they are gegetaled is yet unknown to
us; it is not in 74. or to'M southward on this cost.
That they are formed on the land is certain, from the
many stones of great.size which ere seen ;—some of
them are covered with sand and dirt, others have
estoofnaelsi
frournmnsi—nggethnreoraulgirla
tlmasislororsitzeoantata4lly.saTndheayntt
they have a high cleft ou one side, and shelve down
to the water on the other ; some puck, two hundred
feet perpendicular all round.
Dose or stream ice
consists of pieces about the size of an acre end en.
.
the suffice) *bent( it blown