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that the island, during their stay of nearly twelve 

 months, had afforded them the following quantity of 

 game : three musk-oxen, twenty-four deer, sixty- 

 eight hares, fifty-three geese, fifty-nine ducks, and 

 one hundred and forty-four ptarmigans, amounting 

 in weight to three thousand seven hundred and 

 sixty-six pounds of meat ; that is to say, it afforded 

 to each of ninety-four men three pounds and a half 

 of meat per month ! the produce of an island which 

 is stated to exceed five thousand square miles. 



On the 31st of August they repassed Lancaster 

 Sound, and on the 1st of September bore up and ran 

 along the land, taking their departure from the flag- 

 staff in Possession Bay, on the south-eastern point 

 of the said sound. As the whole of this coast was 

 run down in 1818, and partially examined, it is not 

 necessary to follow the present expedition in any 

 remarks upon it ; but before the ground be quitted 

 on which no less than twelve months were passed, 

 from September, 1819, to August, 1820, the tem- 

 perature of the air in the shade may be noticed : — 



Maximum 60°, Minimum 50°, Range 110°. 



The mean of the twelve months + 1°,33. 



The lowest temperature registered on the ice was — 55° ; 

 it did not rise above 54° for seventeen hours on the 14th and 

 15th of February, 1820. 



On the whole of this eastern coast of Baffin's and 

 Davis's Strait they called only at one place, Clyde's 

 River, in latitude 70° 22'. Here they received 



