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£48 PHIPPS’S JOURNAL.
July the firft, little wind northerly, or calm, all day: the weather_very fine, and fo
warm that we fat without a fire, and with one of the ports,open in the cabin. At noon
the latitude obferved was 78° 13’ 36”; Black Point bearing S: 78° E.3; which makes
the latitude of that point nearly the fame as that of the fhip, and agrees very well with
the chart o: this coaft in Purchas.
The fecond, little wind, and:calms, all day; the weather very fine. At fix in the
morning five fail of Greenlandmen in fight. At noon the latitude obferved was 78°
22’ 41”, I took a furvey of the coaft, as far as we could fee: I took alfo with the
megameter the altitudes of feveral of the mountains : but as there is nothing particularly
intere{ting to navigators in this part of the coaft, I fhall only mention the height of one
mountain, which was, fifteen hundred and three yards. This may ferve to give fome
idea of the appearance and feale of the coaft. At half paft fix the longitude by the
watch was 9° §’ 30” I. : variation 14° 55’ W.
The third, latitude at midnight 78° 23’ 46: dip. 80°45’... The weather fine, and
the wind fair all day. Running. along by the coaft of Spitfbergen all day: feveral
Greenlandmen in fight. Between nine and ten in the evening we were abrea(t of the
North Foreland, bearing E. by S. half S., diitance one mile and half. Sounded in
twenty fathom ; rocky ground.
‘The fourth, very little wind in the morning. . At noon the latitude by obfervation
was 79° 31’. Magdalena Hook bore N. 39° E. diftant four miles ; which gives the
latitude of that place 79° 34/5. the fame as Fotherby obferved it to be m 1614. Stood
in to a fmall bay to the Southward of Magdalena and Hamburgher’s Bay: anchored
with the {tream anchor, and fent the boat for water. About three in the afternoon,
when the boat was fent on. fhore, it appeared to be high water, and ebbed about three
feet. This makes high water full and change at half an hour paft one, or withaS. 5. W.
moon ; which agrees exactly with Baffin’s obfervationin 1613. ‘The flood comes from
the Southward. Went afhore with the aftronomer, and inftruments, to obferve the
variation.’ A thick fog came on before we had completed the obfervations. The fhip
driving, E weighed and {flood out to fea under an eafy fail, firing guns frequently to
fhew the Carcafs where we were ; and in lefs than two hours joined her. Soon after
(about four in the morning of the fitth) the Rockingham Greenland Ship ran under
our ftern, and the mafter told me he had jult fpoke with fome thips from which
he learnt, that the ice was within ten leagues of Hacluyt’s Head Land, to the North-
Weft. In confequence of this intelligence, I gave, orders for {teering in towards the
Head Land; and if it fhouldclear up, to fteer direétly for it; intending to go North
from thence, till fome circum{tance fhould oblige me to alter my courfe.
The fifth, at five the officer informed me, that we were very near fome iflands off
Dane’s Gat, and that the pilot wifhed to ftand farther out; 1 ordered the fhip to be
kept N. by W., and hauled farther in, when clear of the iflands.; At noon fteered
North, feeing nothing of the land; foon after I wastold that they faw the ice: I went.
upon deck, and perceived fomething white upon the bow, and: hearda_ noife like! the
furf upon the fhore; I hauled down the. ftudding fails, and hailed the Carcais to let
them know that I fhould ftand for it to make what it was, having all hands upon deck
ready to haul up at a, moment’s warning: I defired that they would keep clofe to us,
the fog being fo thick, and have every body up ready to follow our motions in{tantane-
oufly, determining to itand on under fuch fail as» fhould enable us’to keep the fhips:
under command, and not-rifk parting company. Soon after two fmall pieces’of ice
not above three feet {quare pafled us, which we fuppofed to have ‘floated from the
fhore. It was not long before we faw fomething on the bow, part black and: part
covered
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