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CONICAL HILL. 



August, 



I was unwilling to incur the loss of a day which 

 that route was certain to occasion, and perhaps 

 even of two days. 



We did not land on Sacred Island, but observed 

 in passing that it still continued to be a burying- 

 place of the Eskimos ; two graves covered by the 

 sledges of the deceased, and not of many years' con- 

 struction, being visible from the boats. This is the 

 most northerly locality in which the common red 

 currant grows on this continent, as far as I have been 

 able to ascertain. Five miles beyond the island, we 

 landed on the main shore, to obtain a meridional 

 observation, by which the latitude was ascertained 

 to be 69° ^' lA!' N., and the sun's bearing at noon, 

 south 51° east. About three miles further on, we 

 had a distant view of an eminence lying to the east- 



Comcal HiU behind Point Encounter. 



