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Updated: June 25, 2025
The two columns steered east, about a mile apart, that of Nelson being to the northward; from which circumstance, the wind being west-northwest, it has been called commonly the weather line.
West-Northwest Rips and the Flat Ground. These lie WNW from Briers Island, extending offshore about 18 miles.
It was now blowing hard from the west-northwest, with every appearance of heavy weather, the fleet not far from a lee shore, with an enemy considerably superior in numbers; for besides Hawke's twenty-three of the line, Duff had four fifty-gun ships.
Towards evening the wind shot from the north-northwest, so that we could sail east-northeast, and afterwards northeast by east; but there was a rolling sea, and, therefore, we could not go ahead much because it came from the front. The wind however improved. 22d, Thursday. The wind was west-northwest, and the course northeast by east, with the sea continuing to roll against us in front.
In the hollow a wigwam was erected, with the door to the south, away from the north wind. Snared rabbits and partridges supplied the food. The way lay as before west-northwest along a chain of frozen lakes and rivers connecting Hudson Bay with the Arctic Ocean.
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