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PHIPPS’S JOURNAL« 558
allowed for extraordinary occafions; as well as the additional cloathing furnithed by
the Admiralty. Notwithftanding every attention, feveral of the men were confined with
colds, which affected them with pains in their bones ; but, from the careful attendance
given them, few continued in the fick lift above two days at atime. At nine in the
morning, when it cleared a little, we faw the Carcafs much to the fouthward of us. I
took the opportunity of the clear weather to run to the weftward, and found the ice
quite folid there ; I then ftood through every opening to the northward, but there alfo
foon got to the edge of the folid ice. Iwas forced to haul up to weather a point
which ran out from it. After I had weathered that, the ice clofing falt upon me,
obliged me to fet the forefail, which, with the frefh wind and fmooth water, gave the
fhip fuch way as to force through it with a violent ftroke. At one in the afternoon,
immediately on getting out into the open fea, we found a heavy {well fetting to the
northward; though amongft the ice, the minute before, the water had been as
fmooth as a mill-pond. The wind blew ftrong at S.S.W. The ice, as far as we
could fee from the maft head, lay E.N.E.: we fteered that courfe clofe to it, to look
for an opening to the northward. I now began to conceive that the ice was one com-
pact impenetrable body, having run along it from eaft to weft above 10°. | purpofed
however to ftand over to the eaftward, in order to afcertain whether the body of ice
joined to Spitfbergen- This the quantity of loofe ice had before rendered impracti-
cable; but thinking the wefterly winds might probably by this time have packed it all
that way, I flattered myfelf with the hopes of meeting with no obftruétion till I fhould
come to where it joined the land; and in cafe of an opening, however {mall, I was
determined at all events to pufh through it. The weather clearer, and the land in
fight.
_ The eleventh, at half paft four in the morning the longitude by the lunar obferva-
tion was 9° 42’ E. And at the fame time by my watch 9° 2’ E. Cloven Cliff S. S. E.
diftant eight miles. This would make the longitude of Cloven Cliff 9° 38’ E. 5 which
is within twenty minutes of what it was determined by the obfervations and furvey’
taken in Fair Haven. At noon the latitude obferved was 80° 4’; Vogel Sang W.S. W.
Little wind and a great {well in the morning. Calm moft part of the day.
The twelfth, calm all day, with a great {well from the S. W., and the weather re-
markably mild. At eight in the evening longitude by the watch 10° 54’ 30’ E.:
Cloven Cliff S. W. by S. The Carcafs drove with the current fo near the main body
of the ice, as to be obliged to anchor; fhe came to in twenty-fix fathom water.
The thirteenth, calm till noon, the {hip driving to the weftward with the current,,
which we obferved to be very irregular, the Carcafs being driven at the fame time to
the eaftward. Near the main body of theice, the detached pieces probably affect the
currents, and occafion the great irregularity which we remarked. We had found an.
heavy fwell from the S. W. thefe two days. At two in the afternoon it came on very
fuddenly to blow frefh from that quarter, with foggy weather: we worked into Vogel.
Sang, and anchored with the beft bower in eleven fathom, foft clay.
The place where we anchored is a good road-{tead, open from the N. E.to the N. W..
The north-eafternmoft point is the Cloven cliff, a bare rock fo called from the top of it
refembling a cloven hoof, which appearance it has always worn, having been named by
fome of the firft Dutch navigators who frequented thefe feas. ‘This rock being entirely
detached from the other mountains, and joined to the reft of the ifland by a low nar–
row ifthmus, preferves in all fituations the fame form ;. and being nearly perpendicular,.
it is never difguifed by fhow. ‘Thefe circumftances render it one of the molt remark-.
able points on the coait. The north-wefternmoft land is an high bluif point, called by:
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