10' to 57 deg.

00' N.The press of sail, which of necessity we carried caused the leak to increase and the pumps were kept in constant use.
A favouring wind at length enabled us, on the 25th, to shape our course across Hudson's Bay.

Nothing worthy of remark occurred during this passage, except the rapid decrease in the variation of the magnetic needle.

The few remarks respecting the appearance of the land, which we were able to make in our quick passage through these Straits, were transmitted to the Admiralty; but as they will not be interesting to the general reader, and may not be sufficiently accurate for the guidance of the Navigator, they are omitted in this narrative.
On the 28th we discovered the land to the southward of Cape Tatnam, which is so extremely low, that the tops of the trees were first discerned; the soundings at the time were seventeen fathoms, which gradually decreased to five as the shore was approached.

Cape Tatnam is not otherwise remarkable than as being the point from which the coast inclines rather more to the westward towards York Factory.
The opening of the morning of the 30th presented to our view the anchorage at York Flats, and the gratifying sight of a vessel at anchor, which we recognised, after an anxious examination, to be the Wear.