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our visit, but were soon satisfied. Indeed the aspect of 

 nature throughout presented that heavy gloorn which 

 should accompany this very type of barren solitude. 

 Palling along the coast for a period of six hours, and 

 estimating the distance traversed to be about seventeen 

 miles, we reached the southern angle of the island, 

 where the first high jutting heads frown upon the coast- 

 line, which, in the interval from our late station, pre- 

 sented but a succession of low spits and creeks, pro- 

 bably intersecting this part of the island ; and at one 

 opening, about five miles from the western station, a 

 narrow strait appeared to divide that portion into a se- 

 parate island. 



Under a pair of high " double cliffs" we pitched our 

 tent ; the snow was deep for the season, and no vegeta- 

 tion to be traced. At sunrise on the 2nd of September, 

 every prospect of a bright, clear day promised, and I 

 succeeded in obtaining the sun, as well as angles to Ex- 

 mouth and Table Islands, but the snow still continued 

 to fall, baffling further exertions. I ascended the high 

 land commanding the eastern horizon, which at that 

 time was very clear, but no land could be traced easterly 

 of Table Island. The eastern limit of North Cornwall I 

 was enabled to trace about fifteen miles, where it seemed 

 to terminate in a low spit, and then turn abruptly to the 

 north. 



I have therefore but little doubt that this great east- 

 ern space connects with Jones and Smith Sounds, or the 

 Polar Ocean, on which the search of the next season 

 will doubtless throw more light. Our business, it is true, 

 does not so much concern geographical discovery, as the 



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