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western part of the coast, left by Franklin, from his 

 Return Reef to Cape Barrow; again, from Point 

 Turnagain, to the eastward, as far as the Gulf of 

 Akkolee : to this latter portion the notice here taken 

 must be confined. 



In July, 1839, they entered the Coronation Gulf 

 for the second time with their two boats, passed 

 Cape Turnagain, and, from a point on the continent 

 of America, to the eastward of Turnagain, they 

 thence observed to the northward a large tract of 

 land, to which they gave the name of Victoria, either 

 joining with, or separated by a strait from, Wollaston 

 Land. On their return, they traced the coast of 

 Victoria for about eleven degrees of longitude. 

 From Cape Alexander, the southern coast of the 

 Polar Sea trended southerly to a large bay crowded 

 with islands, which they called Labyrinth Bay, 

 opposite to which was Melbourne Island. Lower 

 down the coast, in lat. 58°, was Sir Guy Campbell's 

 Bay, into which Ellice River poured its waters — a 

 stream described as much larger than Copper Mine 

 River ; the bordering country consisting of green 

 flats, little lakes, and knotty knolls. This coast 

 still descended to the southward, Ogden Bay being 

 the lowest, in lat. 67 a 36', long. 101° 15'. 



On the 10th of August they found the American 

 coast trending to the north-eastward, and "pro- 

 ceeded all day among islands, so that some of the 

 party began to apprehend we had lost the continent 



