After  experiencing  the  most  tremendous  weather  for  aome  vedks
our  navigators  passed  the  Antarctic  circle  fur  the  third  time,  on  the
S6th  of  January,  when  they  experienced   the  mildent  sunshine  tliej
had  met  with  within  the  limits  of  the  frigid  zone.     Thia  revived  their
hopes  of  penetrating  as  far  to>ward8  the  soulliern  pole  aa  other  naviga-
tors had   done  towards  the  north  ;  but  the  next  day  discovered  to
'them  a  solid  field  of  ice  of  immense  extent,  which  effectaally  barred
their  farther  progress.     Captain  Cook,  however,  gives   his  decided
opini'^n  that  there  exists  land  to  the  south  behind  thia  ice,  botaddi^
''It  can  afford  no  better  retreat  for  birds  or  any  other  animab  than
the  ice  itself  with  which  it  must  be  covered.      I,  who  was  ambitiooi
not  only  of  going  farther  than  any  body  had  gone  before,  but  as  &r  as
it  was  possible  for  man  to  go,  was  not  sorry  to  meet  with  this  inter-
mption,  as  it  in  some  measure  relieved  us  and  shortened  the  daageis
and  hardships  inseparable  from  the  navigation  of  the  southern  poiit
regions.    Since  then,  we  could  not  proceed  fiirther  to  the  miuth,  no
other  reason  was  necessary  for  my  tacking  and  standing  back  to  the
north,  being  at  this  time  in  the  latitude  of  71  deg.  16.  miQ.'aouth,  and
longitude  106  degrees  54  minutes  west.
