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The low land was now diversified by occa- 

 sional mounds; and presented an opening to 

 the left caused by a river which was called after 

 Captain Superintendent Sir Samuel Warren, of 

 Woolwich Dock Yard. The banks here were 

 higher, sometimes rising into cliffs, but of the 

 same dry and sandy character, barren and cheer- 

 less. Again, trending more to the eastward, 

 we passed Jervoise River, another large tribu- 

 tary from the right; and then came to a low 

 sandy opening, which seemed to be completely 

 shut in, until at the northern limit a rapid 

 channel led us among some rocks that appeared 

 to extend from an adjacent height towards a range 

 of hills to the north-west. The sun being too 

 low to allow of our running the rapids before 

 us, we encamped. There were some musk oxen 

 here ; but neither they nor even the deer or 

 geese were startled, unless they saw some one 

 actually going towards them. The observations 

 to-day gave the latitude 65° 9' W N., longitude 

 103° 33' 8" W., and the variation 30° 6' E. ; thus 

 showing that we had made nearly all easting. 

 The threatening appearance of the curling waves, 

 and the roar and gloom of a defile along which 

 our course now lay, rendered it necessary to 

 examine what there might be to contend with 

 among the frowning rocks, which, overlapping 

 as they receded, seemed to the eye as if they 



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