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lin had made for us ; and gratitude for his care mingling 

 with the pleasure excited by our success, and directing our 

 thoughts more strongly to his party, the most ardent wishes 

 were expressed that they might prove equally fortunate. 

 The correctness of Mr. Kendall's reckoning was another 

 source of pleasure. Having been deprived of the aid of 

 chronometers by the breaking of the two intended for the 

 eastern detachment of the Expedition, during the intense 

 winter cold, our only resource for correcting the dead rec- 

 koning was lunar observations, made as frequently as oppor- 

 tunities offered ; yet when we approached the Copper Mine 

 River, Mr. Kendall's reckoning differed from the position 

 of that place, as ascertained on Captain Franklin's former 

 expedition, only twenty seconds of time, or about two miles 

 and a half of distance, which is a very trifling difference when 

 the length of the voyage and the other circumstances are 

 taken into consideration. The distance between Point Se- 

 paration and the month of the Copper Mine River, by the 

 route we pursued, is nine hundred and two statute miles." 

 —pp. 261, 262. 



Having thus completed their voyage by arriving 

 at the mouth of the Copper Mine River, and again 

 noticed the capes and islands seen from thence 

 jointly by Richardson and Franklin on a former 

 occasion, and now having certified to be land what 

 was then only conjecture, they proceeded- up the 

 river as far as the Bloody Falls, above which, for 

 about forty miles, the river was found to be so full 

 of rapids, and to flow over such an uneven and 

 rocky bed, and its current so precipitous, as to 

 be wholly impracticable to ascend it in boats 

 of a greater draught than a few inches. They 



