the health, comfort, and even the amusement of the crew, were planned and effected with such admirable good sense, that listlessness and fatigue were strangers, even among sailors, a class of men who, above all others, it would have been apprehended, would have soon wearied of such a monotonous life.  The commencement of winter was justly dated from the 14th of September, when the thermometer suddenly fell to 9 deg..  On the 4th of November the sun descended below the horizon, and did not appear again till the 8th of February.  A little before and after what in other places is called the shortest day, but which to them was the middle of their long night, there was as much light as enabled them to read small print, when held towards the south, and to walk comfortably for two hours.  Excessive cold, as indicated by the thermometer, took place in January:  it then sunk from 30 deg. to 40 deg. below Zero:  on the 11th of this month it was at 49 deg.; yet no disease, or even pain or inconvenience was felt in consequence of this most excessive cold, provided the proper precautions were used; nor did any complaint arise from the extreme and rapid change of temperature to which they were exposed, when, as was often the case, they passed from the cabins, which were kept heated up to 60 deg. or 70 deg., to the open air, though the change in one minute was in several instances 120 deg. of temperature.

Cold, however, as January was, yet the following month, though, as we have already observed, it again exhibited the sun to them, was much colder; on the 15th of February the thermometer fell to 55 deg. below Zero, and remained for fifteen hours not higher than 54 deg..  Within the next fifteen hours it gradually rose to 34 deg..  But though the sun re-appeared early in February, they had still a long imprisonment to endure; and Captain Parry did not consider it safe to leave their winter quarters till the 1st of August, when they again sailed to the westward:  their mode of proceeding was the same as that which they had adopted the preceding year, viz. crawling along the shore, within the fast ice; in this manner they got to the west end of Melville Island.  But all their efforts to proceed further were of no avail.  Captain Parry was now convinced, that somewhere to the south-west of this there must be an immoveable obstacle, which prevented the ice dispersing in that direction, as it had been found to do in every other part of the voyage.

At last, on the 16th of August, further attempts were given up, and Captain Parry determined to return to the eastward, along the edge of the ice, in order that he might push to the southward if he could find an opening.  Such an opening, however, could not be found; but by coasting southward, along the west side of Baffin’s Bay, Captain Parry convinced himself that there are other passages into Prince Regent’s Inlet, besides that by Lancaster Sound.  The farthest point in the Polar sea reached in this voyage was latitude 71 deg. 26’ 23”, and longitude 113 deg. 46’ 43:5”.  On the 26th of September they took a final leave of the ice, and about the middle of November they arrived in the Thames.