JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

nite: On the 27th the froft was fo fevere that the axes of the workmen be-

i—~——_ came almoft as brittle as glafs. The weather was very various until the
2d of December, when my Farenheit’s thermometer was injured by an.
accident, which rendered it altogether ufelefs. The following table,
therefore, from the 16th of Nov

ftance, is the only correét account of the weather which I can offer.

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Month and |
Hours A.M,

| Wind
| Weather.

12INW]- ;
14, ———] ditto at 10 laft night 1 below o.
25 - Rever ftopped. }
29 cloudy |) 6 f Ice drove, and water rifes.
‘j23|——} clear ||, 6. 15 Ice drove again.
o| o|NE

Snowed laft night 2 inches

2
2

N.

After dark, over caft.

cloudy | 12}. |13 6; 7|-——| di Ditto, a little wind S. W.
12 | 116] S. ‘cloudy
13}, E | 24|S. Ey ditto ||Fell g inches fnow laft night

In this fituation, removed from all thofe ready aids which add fo much
to the comfort, and indeed is a principal charaCteriftic of civilized life,
I was under the neceflity of employing my judgment and experience in
acceflory circumftances, by no means connected with the habits of my
life, or the enterprife in which I was immediately engaged, I was now

tior