A Voyage of Discovery: Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His ... 2
A Voyage of Discovery: Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His ... 2
John Ross
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Oct. 3. — It was my intention to have taken a better view of Resolution Island, m order to prove the accuracy of our longitude ; but the weather being fo^y, and the wind light and variable, I was obliged to abandon the attempt as too hazardous under the circum- stances of thick weather, badnsailing ships, a dark moon, spring-tides, and a cosst sm^ rounded with rocks. The time I was di- rected to leave the service on whidi I wm employed was also arrived; but our bearings of yesterday were suffic...ient to convince us, that our observations and chronometers could not be materially wrong. During the last night, whidi was both dark and foggy, the Alexander had separated firom us con- aiderably, and the wind being li^t she did TO THE ABCTIC BIOIOKS. 51 - - '^ — Om.4. Lm.61*4i'N. Long. «i« ift' W. not join us until noon. We then bore up for Cape Farewell, having intimated, by ugaalf that it was my intention to make that Cape on our passage home ; we sound- ed in three hundred and seventy fathoms.
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