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one of them waded out to the sand-bank, planted a 

 stick on it, and, pulling off his rein-deer jacket, 

 hung it up, intimating that he wished to have its 

 value, and then retreated to the shore. AVe, however, 

 declined bartering, and at 10 p.m. weighed anchor, 

 and, standing out to sea, worked to windward all 

 night against a stiff breeze. 



August A.th. — We gained only a few miles by 

 the night's operations, having to contend with a 

 tumbling sea, which drove us to leeward ; and at 

 3 in the morning, on the wind moderating suffi- 

 ciently to allow us to use the oars, we struck the 

 masts and pulled for three hours across Copland 

 Hutchison Inlet, when we landed on its eastern 

 side to prepare breakfast. The shore in this 

 quarter is for the most part low, but, at intervals of 

 seven or eight miles or more, some of the conical emi- 

 nences already mentioned occur. They have not 

 the ridged and escarped aspect of sand hills, but, 

 on account of their isolation, look more like arti- 

 ficial barrows, though unquestionably they cannot be 

 works of art. I am incjjmed to think that they are 

 remnants of the sand formation which covers the 

 shale so extensively along the banks of the Mac- 

 kenzie, and that they have received their conical 

 form from the washing of high tides during the 

 occasional inundations of the low-lands by the sea. 



Copland Hutchison Inlet is about ten miles 



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