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CHAP. XL 



Gigantic Boulders. — Danger from the Rapids, — Course 

 of the River. — Lake Macdougall. — Hazardous Pas- 

 sage. — Sinclair's Falls. — Northerly Bend of the 

 River. — Mount Meadowba?ik. — Altitude of the Rocks. 



— The Trap Formation. — M c Kay's Peak. — Lake 

 Frankli?i. — Extrication from Peril. — Sluggishness of 

 the Compass. — Esquimaux — Portrait of a Female, 



— Victoria Headland. — Mouth of the Thlew-ee- 

 Choh. — Cockburn Bay. — Point Backhouse. — Irby 

 and Mangles' Bay. — Point Beaufort. — Our Progress 

 arrested. — Montreal Island. — A Mask Ox killed. — 

 Birds on the Island. — Elliot Bay. — M c Kay, etc. sent 

 along the Coast. — Esquimaux Encampments. — Cape 

 Hay. — Point Ogle. — Progress obstructed by the Ice. 



— A Piece of Drft-wood found. — Ross Island. — 

 Discoveries by Mr. Kmg. — Magnetic Observations. — 

 Point Richardson. — Point Hardy. — Conjectures as 

 to a N. W. Passage and Channel to Regenfs Inlet. 



Congratulating one another on our release, 

 we went on with renewed spirits. Much ice was 

 carried down the rapid, which, instead of going 

 into the wide space in front, was impelled sud- 

 denly to the eastward, and thence again hur- 

 ried by a strong northerly current into a branch 

 of another lake, the bays of which were not 

 less than from twelve to fifteen miles deep. 

 Long ranges of conical and cliff-broken sand- 



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