﻿2S4 CAPE KRUSENSTEKN. August, 



yards, the cold weather almost paralysing the 

 men's powers of exertion. 



When the tide flowed in the afternoon, a portage 

 of a thousand yards was made, and the boats being 

 afterwards dragged across some smooth floes of 

 ice, we gained a pool of open water, and pulled to 

 the bottom of Pasley's Cove, where we encamped. 

 Mount Barrow is a conspicuous object from the 

 bottom of the cove, as it rises abruptly from the 

 flat limestone strata. 



August 2dth. — During the night and this morning 

 the same keen frosty east winds continued, with 

 snow showers. The tide fell so much that the 

 boats were left aground in the morning, and we 

 were unable to proceed until 7 A.m. In three 

 hours we came within about a mile and a half of 

 the pitch of Cape Krusenstern, when further 

 progress being barred by ice heaped against the 

 cliffs, we put ashore and drew up the boats on the 

 beach. In the flat limestone beds, of which the 

 country here is formed, I observed a curious 

 variety of structure which I saw no where else, 

 and which I cannot satisfactorily account for. It 

 was a diminutive ridge like the roof of a house, 

 formed in this manner A, of the upper slaty layer 

 of the limestone, its height or the breadth of its 

 sides being about a foot only, yet its length 

 was half a mile. It seemed to be connected with 



