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voyage. The country is flat and strewed with 

 fracjments of limestone. 



No lanes of open water could be discerned on 

 the 24th from any of the eminences near the coast. 

 By handing the boats over the flats, where the 

 water was too shallow for heavy ice, we were 

 enabled to round six small bays. In the course of 

 this labour many salmon were seen, a few were 

 killed by the men with their poles, and some 

 were found on the ice, having been left by seals, 

 which were scared away by our approach. The 

 shape of this salmon is much like that of the 

 common sea-trout of England, but its scales are 

 rather smaller. Its flesh is red, and its flavour 

 excellent. A medium-sized fish measured 29 

 inches in length, and 16 in girth. We encamped 

 at five in the evening a little to the eastward of 

 Chantry Island, having travelled about twenty-four 

 miles roinid the bays, but gained only eight in 

 direct distance. At this place, beds of compact 

 white limestone crop out on the beach, and the 

 surface of the country is thickly strewed with 

 boulders of bright-red sandstone, some of them 

 very large. Many boulders of basalt and other 

 trap rocks also occur. 



August 25th. — A strong west-north-west wind 

 blowing during the night, cleared away much of 

 the ice that pressed immediately on the beach, 



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