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NORTH-WEST CONTINENT OF AMERICA,

I did not think it prudent to move. As I was watching for a paffage
through the ice, I promifed to fend for them when I could obtain it.
It rained at intervals till about five o’clock ; when we loaded our canoe,

and fteered for the large ifland, Weft fix miles. When we came to the

point of it, we found a great quantity of ice; we, however, fet our
nets, and foon caught plenty of fifh. In our way thither we met our
hunters, but they had taken nothing. I took foundings at an hundred

yards from the ifland, when we were in twenty-one fathom water. Here.

we found abundance of cranberries and {mall fpring onions. I now’ dif-

patched two men for M. Le Roux, and his people.

A Southerly wind blew through the night, and drove the ice to the
Northward. The two men whom I had fent to M. Le Roux, returned
at eight this morning; they parted with him at a {mall diftance from us,
but the wind blew fo hard, that he was obliged to put to fhore. Having
a glimpfe of the fun, when it was twelve by my watch, I found the lati-
tude 61. 34. North latitude. At two in the afternoon, M. Le Roux, and
his people arrived. At five, the ice being almott all driven paft to the
Northward, we accordingly embarked, and fteered Weft fifteen miles,
through much broken ice, and on the outfide of the iflands, though it
appeared to be very folid to the North-Eaft. I founded three times in
this diflance, and found it feventy-five, forty-four, and fixty fathom
water. We pitched our tents on one of a clufter of {mall iflands that
were within three miles of the main Jand, which we could not reach in

confequence of the ice.

We faw fome rein-deer on one of the iflands, and our hunters went

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