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PHIPPS S JOURNAL, 553
Vacluyt’s Head Land 79° 47’; longitude 9° 11’ 30’ E. ‘The tide rofe about four feer,
and flowed at half an hour after one, full and change. he tide fet irregularly, from
the number of iflands between which it paffed ; but the flood appeared to come from the
fouthward.
The eighteenth, the calm weather fince the fourteenth had given us full time to finith
the obfervations, and complete our water: a breeze fpringing up in the morning, I
went afhore to get the inftruments on board. Between one and two we weighed, with
the wind wefterly, and f{tood to the northward. Between eleven and twelve at night,
having run about eight leagues, we were prevented by the ice from getting farther. We
{tood along the edge of it to the fouthward. At two in the morning, being embayed
by the ice, I tacked, and left orders to ftand to the eaftward along the edge of the ice,
as’foon as we could weather the point; hoping, if there fhould be no opening between
the land and the ice, that I fhould at leaft be able to afcertain where they joined, and
perhaps to difcover from the land, whether there was any profpect of a paflage that way :
at that time the ice was all folid as far as we could fee, without the leaft appearance of
water to the northward.
The nineteenth, at fix in the morning, we had got to the eaftward among the loofe
ice which lay very thick in fhore, the main body to the northward and eaftward: the
land near Deer Field not four miles off, and the water fhoaled to twenty fathoms. Here
we found ourfelves nearly in the fame place where we had twice been ftopped, the ice
fituated as before, locked with the land, without any paflage either to the eaftward or
northward : I therefore ftood back to the weftward. At noon the northernmoft part
of Vogel Sang bore S. W. by S. diftant about feven leagues. The weather being very
fine, and the wind to the eaftward, we were enabled to coaft along the ice to the weft-
ward, hauling into all the bays, going round every point of ice in fearch of an opening,
and ftanding clofe along by the main body all day, generally within a fhip’s length.
The twentieth, at half after three in the morning, the land was out of fight, and we
imagined ourfelves in rather more than eighty degrees and a half; fome of the openings
being near two leagues deep, had flattered us with hopes of getting to the northward ;
but thefe openings proved to be no more than bays in the main body of the ice. About
one in the afternoon, we were by our reckoning in about 80° 34’, nearly in the fame
place where we had been on theninth. About three we bore away, for what appeared
like an opening to the S. W.; we found the ice run far to the fouthward.
The twenty-firft, we {till continued to run along the edge of the ice, which trended
to the fouthward. At noon we were in the latitude of 79° 26’, by obfervation, which
was twenty-five miles to the fouthward of our reckoning. Finding that the direétion
of the ice led us to the fouthward, and that the current fet the fame way, I {tood to the
northward and weftward clofe along the ice, to try whether the fea was opened to the
northward by the wind from that quarter. At nine in the evening we had no ground
with two hundred fathom of line. At ten we got into a ftream of loofeice. ‘The wea-
ther fine, but cool all day, and fometimes foggy.
The twenty-fecond, at two in the morning, we bore away to the N. E. for the main
body of the ice ; the weather became foggy foon afterwards. At fix we faw the ice;
and the weather being {till foggy, we hauled up to the S.S. E., to avoid being embayed
in it: the air very cold.
The twenty-third, at midnight, tacked for the body of the ice. Latitude obferved
Soe 13/ 38%. Rainy in the morning; fair in the afternoon: {till working up to the
northward and eaftward, with the wind eafterly. At fix in the evening the Cloven
cliff bearmg fouth about fix leagues, founded in two hundred fathom, muddy ground ;
the lead appeared to have funk one-third of its length in the mud. At two in the morn-
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