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shore, measured five feet in length, by four in 

 breadth, and exhibited some curious veining. 



In approaching our anchorage we shot two seals, 

 and one of them, being thrown on the strand, 

 attracted, late in the evening, the attention of a 

 grey fox, which was prowling along the beacli. 

 As soon as the animal saw the carcase, it halted, 

 and, after a momentary survey, leaped lightly 

 behind a laro;e loo; of drift timber, from whence it 

 peeped out at it from time to time. While I was 

 watching the fox's reconnoitring tactics with some 

 interest, and speculating upon the time it would 

 devote to the survey before it ventured to approach 

 the carrion, a noise made by the sentinel, who was 

 seated by the fire, scared the wary object of my 

 study, and it fled swiftly up the hill. 



August 14ct]i. — This morning we deposited a 

 letter, with a case of pemican, on the verge of the 

 cliff of Cocked-hat Point, covered it with frag- 

 ments of limestone, and erected in front of it a 

 pile of stones marked with red paint. The beds 

 of this cliff are horizontal, and they are not only 

 interleaved with regular layers of chert, but also 

 contain nodules of the same material. On rounding 

 the eastern point of Cape Parry, we saw packs of 

 drift-ice for the first time since we commenced our 

 sea voyage. Eight or ten miles to the southward 

 of the Cape we passed an isolated rock, perforated 



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