326 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



is about one hundred feet. Only meagre vegetation was 

 found on it, but great quantities of drift-wood lay along the 

 shores. Arctic birds were numerous ; and the visitors suc- 

 ceeded in killing three bears and forty walruses. A strong 

 current was found setting the drift-ice to the southward. 

 By the bearing of the sun at noon, the magnetic declination 

 was determined as 30 easterly. 



