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The ship Dundee of London, arrived at Lerwick in May 1827, from Davis' Straits, after having experienced the greatest hardships during a severe winter, in a place where man never wintered before. Commander David Duncan.

She was beset in lat. 74, 30, and was liberated in lat. 63; she drove, in one solid body of ice, from August 23, 1826, till April 16, 1827. The Haarlem Dutch ship, of Herlingen, was lost close by the Dundee, on August 23. The crew saved no provisions, but came (to the number of 40) on board of her, from the 23rd August to the 6th October; as, however, here was not the slightest appearance of the ice separating, they resolved to set out for Levely, a Danish settlement, about 350 miles distant they took their departure in three open boats with the frost so insupportably intense, that it seemed doubtful whether they would reach Levely