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cape of which is in lat. 69° 45' ; from whence the 

 main shore gradually trends to the southward of 

 east, steep to, and bold, with here and there a 

 small bay and projecting point, till it reaches Cape 

 Krusenstern, previous to which the party passed 

 through a broad channel, named the Union and 

 Dolphin Strait, and formed between a long tract of 

 elevated land to the northward and the main shore, 

 to which was given the name of Wollaston Land. 

 In this strait they were impeded, and the Dolphin 

 was nearly crushed, by two masses of ice. 



As soon as she was rendered sea-worthy they 

 proceeded, but the flood- tide set with such velocity 

 round a rocky point, and brought with it so much 

 ice, that it was thought prudent to put ashore. The 

 violent eddies in the currents there, the Doctor 

 says, " reminded us forcibly of the poet's descrip- 

 tion of Scylla and Charybdis." The navigation of 

 the Dolphin and Union Strait, he says, would be 

 dangerous to ships, from the many sunken rocks 

 which we observed near the southern shore. 



A little beyond the strait is a rocky promontory, 

 to which Dr. Richardson gave the name of Cape 

 Krusenstern, in honour of the distinguished Russian 

 hydrographer ; its lat. 68° 23' N., long. 113° 45' W., 

 and it is the most eastern part of the land which 

 they coasted. From this point the coast trends to 

 the south-west, and appears as if forming the west- 

 ern side of what is called in the charts George the 



