An account of several late voyages and discoveries

4 Yht :Ji;¡I Pat ·oftbe v,,,g, but t~at labour was lofi, . for he was not wortb taking. From the 25th of .Aprilto 1 this day, we ha4 not taken the Sun's alritude, we wcre then in 70 degrees and ~ minutes, and failcd towar the North and the Ice. It may feem ftranae, th:it we fo often failed to the Ice, and from° í again, bue 1 {hall give you a reafon forth hereafter. The 11th it was ftormy and excefiivc col the wind North, and ·we had·thc greateft fro in this Month of MaJ. On the 14th the wind was North-wefl, 6 weather, with Sun-lbine, we were within 7' degrcesand ~2 minutes. We told twenty Shi ·about us, the Sea was very cven, and we bar ly felt any wind, yet it was very cóld. In this place ·the Sea becomes fmooth p fently again aftcr ·a ftorm, chiefly when 1· wind blóws from ·the Ice; fü1t when it blo off the Sea; it always makesa great Sea. The'fame day we faw a Whale imt far off fr · our Ship, we put out fourBoats from on boa aftcr him, but this labour was:alfo in vain, he run under 'Water, and faw himno more. On the 19th we had a dull Sun-fhine, t wind was North, and it was (o calm that could hardly fecl it; we rowed in the Shi boat to the Ice, and killed two Sea-ho,melr Sea/es: 'there were fo man y óf · them on the I that they could noc be numbred. On the 20th it was exceéding cold, fo t the ver1 Sea was ali frozcn over ; yet it w