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March 1773 - Hague
& a good deal of eating.
This morning I had a Levee of Groenland Captains who had been sent from Rotterdam in order to give me such information as they might be able which might forward Captn Phipps Plan of sailing towards the pole which he is at present engaged in from them I learnd that they had all been to the NE extremity of Spitzbergen or near it that there they met with current running to the westward & southward withall which after having passed by Spitzbergen kept away much more southerly appearing to keep along the land shore of Groenland that they also in coming out had a current along the west side of Spitzbergen running to the northward which however extended but a little way from the Coast one man said that he had been attempting to break into the solid ice between Spitzbergen & Groenland but found it impossible another said that he had been to the northward of the NE Island in Lat 81 & had there a sea