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About noon they landed to procure observations, C x I A I p ' 

 and found the latitude of this part of the coast to be ***>r—i 

 70° 43' 47" N., and longitude, from the bearings of f a? 1 ™ 

 Wainwright Inlet, 159° 46' W. Here a post was Barge ' 

 erected for Captain Franklin, on which the follow- 

 ing inscription was painted: "Blossom's tender, 

 Sunday, August 20th, latitude 70° 43' N„ bound 

 along the coast to the N. E. If Captain Franklin 

 should pass this place, he will probably leave some 

 memorandum." The coast was here low, and more 

 dry than that in the vicinity of Wainwright Inlet, 

 with a beach of sand and gravel mixed, upon which 

 there was an abundance of coal and drift-wood. In 

 the evening they passed several yourts, but saw no 

 inhabitants until nine o'clock, when several came off 

 and annoyed the crew with their importunities and 

 disorderly conduct. The coast was here more popu- 

 lous than any where to the southward, which their 

 visiters probably thought a good protection against 

 the small force of our boat, and they were not easily 

 driven away. 



On the 21st they arrived off a chain of sandy 

 islands lying some distance from the main land, 

 which I have distinguished by the name of the Sea 

 Horse Islands. As the wind was light and baffling, 

 they landed upon several of these for observations ; 

 and tracking the boat along the shore, at eight in the 

 evening they arrived at the point to which I trans- 

 ferred the name of Cape Franklin, from the cliff on 

 the main land to which I had originally given that 

 name, as I found by the discoveries of Mr. Elson 

 that the cliff was not actually the coast line* From 



* See the Chart. 

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