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PHIPPS S JOURNAL. 557
“ The ifland is about feven miles long, flat, and formed chiefly of {tones fronr eighteen
to thirty inches over, many of them hexagons, and commodioufly placed for walking
on: the middle of the ifland is covered with mofs, fcurvy-grafs, forrel, and a few ranun-
culufes then in flower. Two-rein-deer were feeding on the mofs; one we killed, and
found it fat, and of high flavour. We faw a light grey-coloured fox; and a creature
fomewhat larger than a weafel, with fhort ears, long tail, and tkin {potted white and
black. ‘he ifland abounds with {mall {nipes, fimilar to the jack-{nipe in England.
The ducks were now hatching their eggs, and many wild geefe feeding by the water-
fide.”
When I left the deck at fix in the morning, the weather was remarkably clear, and
quite calm. Tothe N. E., amongft the iflands, I faw much ice, but alfo much water
between the pieces ; which gave me hopes that when a breeze {prung up, I fhould be
able to get to the northward by that way.
The thirtieth, little winds, and calm all day ; we got fomething to the northward and
eaftward. At noon we were by obfervation in latitude 80° 31’... At three in the after-
noon we were in longitude 18° 48’ E., being amongift the iflands, and in the ice, with no
appearance of an opening for the fhip. Between eleven and twelve at night I fent the
mafter, Mr. Crane, in the four-oared boat, amoneft the ice, to try whether he could get
the boat through, and find any opening for the thip which might give us a profpeé of
getting farther ; with diredtions if he could reach the fhore to go up one of the moun-
tains, in order to difcover the ftate of the ice to the eaftward and northward. At five
inthe morning, the ice being all round us, we got out our ice-anchors, and moored
along-fide a field. The mafter returned between feven and eight, and with him Captain
Lutwidge, who had joined him on fhore. ‘They had afcended an high mountain, from
whence they commanded a profpe& extending to the eaft and north-ea{t ten or twelve
leagues, over one continued plain of fmooth unbroken ice, bounded only by the hori?
zon : they alfo faw land {tretching to the S. E., laid down in the Dutch charts as iflands.
The main body of the ice, which we had traced from weft to eaft, they now perceived
to join to thefe iflands, and from them to what is called the North-Eaft-Land. In re-
turning, the ice having clofed much fince they went, they were frequently forced to haul
the boat over it to other openings. The weather exceedingly fine and mild, and un-
ufually clear. The fcene was beautiful and picturefque ; the two fhips becalmed in a
large bay, with three apparent openings between the iflands which formed it, but every
where furrounded with ice as far as we could fee, with fome ftreams of water; not a
breath of air; the water perfectly fmooth ; the ice covered with fnow, low and even,
except a few broken pieces near the edges: the pools of water in the middle of the
pieces were frozen over with young ice.
The thirty.firft, at nine in the morning, having a light breeze to the eaftward, we
caft off, and endeavoured to force through the ice. At noon the ice was fo clofe, that
being unable to proceed, we moored again to a field. In the afternoon we filled our
cafk with frefh water from the ice, which we found very pure and foft. he Carcafs
moved, and made faft to the fame field with us. The ice meafured eight yards ten
inches in thicknefs at one end, and feven yards eleven inches at the other. At four in
the afternoon the variation was 12° 24’ W.: at the fame time the longitude 192 0! 15/
E.; by which we found that we had hardly moved to the eaftward fince the day before.
Calm moft part of the day; the weather very fine; the ice clofed falt, and was all
round the fhips ; no opening to be feen any where, except an hole of about a mile and
a half, where the fhips lay faft to the ice with ice-anchors. We completed the water.
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