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in different latitudes. On the Winipeg it was 

 accompanied by the purple swift (Progne pur- 

 purea), whose northern limit we did not ascertain. 



We resumed our voyage at three in the morning 

 on the 1st of August, and when we landed to cook 

 breakfast, saw some recent footmarks of Eskimos. 

 As these people are employed at this time of the 

 year, in hunting the rein-deer on the hills which 

 we were skirting, we were in constant expectation 

 of seeing some of their parties. The Rein-deer 

 Hills, as viewed from the eastern channel, seem 

 to be an even- backed range ; but when examined 

 with the telescope, they are seen to consist of 

 many small, oblong, rocky eminences, apparently of 

 limestone, and are sparingly wooded. In the course 

 of the morning we crossed the mouths of three 

 pretty large affluents, coming in from the hills, 

 and also two cross canals, dividing M'Gillivray 

 Island into three sections. 



About thirty-five miles from Point Separation, or 

 in latitude 68° 10' N., the channel washes the foot 

 of a low dome-shaped bluff, in which the intrusion 



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