With respect to the dimensions of the ice through which we had now
scrambled our way, principally by warping and towing, a distance of
between three and four hundred miles, I remarked that it for the most
part increased, as well in the thickness as the extent of the floes, as
we advanced westward about the parallel of 71 deg. During our subsequent
progress to the north, we also met with some of enormous dimensions,
several of the floes, to which we applied our hawsers and the power of
the improved capstan, being at their margin more than twenty feet above
the level of the sea; and over some of these we could not see from the
masthead. Upon the whole, however, the magnitude of the ice became
somewhat less towards the northwest, and within thirty miles of that
margin the masses were comparatively small, and their thickness much
diminished. Bergs were in sight during the whole passage, but they were
more numerous towards the middle of the "pack," and rather the most so
to the southward.
CHAPTER II.
Enter Sir James Lancaster's Sound.--Land at Cape Warrender.--Meet
with young Ice.--Ships beset and carried near the Shore.--Driven
back to Navy-board Inlet.--Run to the Westward, and enter Prince
Regent's Inlet.
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