116 SURVEY OF HARBOUR. 



walk to the land. On the following day a party 

 under the orders of Lieutenant Stanley, was 

 directed to make a survey of the harbour. 

 This was completed by the evening. It was 

 ascertained to be one mile and a half long, and 

 half a mile broad, by admeasurement ; exposed 

 to a north-north-east wind, but sheltered from 

 all others. The echo-rock was six hundred and 

 fifty feet high ; some others varied from that to 

 eight hundred and fifty feet ; these again were 

 backed by the coast range, running generally 

 from one thousand to fourteen and sixteen hun- 

 dred feet above the level of the sea. Neither 

 the depth of water nor the nature of the bottom 

 could be got, on account of the under layers of 

 ice intercepting the lead. I called it Smyth's 

 Harbour, after the first Lieutenant of the Terror. 

 Some of the gentlemen ascended the hills by 

 the vallies, and observed on their way numerous 

 tracks of animals, — bears, wolves, foxes, and rein- 

 deer. A few willows were also seen, near which 

 were the tracks of partridges. 



The pack in which we were frozen had now 

 remained so long unmoved, and the bay ice had 

 attained such a solidity, that many concluded 

 we were definitively fixed for the winter ; but 

 on the 8th November a fresh gale ushered in 

 the new moon, and before night drove the huge 

 pack from the inshore ice, leaving between the 



