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all the Esquimaux agree in placing it at 

 three days' journey. 



Should this be the case, of which I be- 

 lieve no doubt is entertained, the water in 

 question may be inferred to join that sea, 

 which opens out from the western mouth 

 of the Strait of the Fury and Hecla, and 

 the form of the Peninsula may be toler- 

 ably imagined from the charts drawn by 

 the natives. 



A bight may therefore exist as far to the 

 southward as Akkoolee, which is the oppo- 

 site shore from Repulse Bay ; and it cer- 

 tainly would be an object of great interest 

 to trace the connexion of its shores, with 

 Point Turnagain, at which Captain Frank- 

 lin's operations terminated. 



For this purpose Earl Bathurst did me 

 the honour of employing me, and my 



