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1S24. two boats for water, and Lieutenant Manico 

 Sept. and Mr. Kendall went in them, the latter 

 gentleman to obtain angles with the theodoUte. 

 The flood tide was here observed to come de- 

 cidedly from the south-west, as the ship swung 

 to it while the wind continued fresh ; but I 

 think it may, from the trending of this part of 

 the coast, be rather an eddy, than the true 

 tide, influenced in all probability by the outset 

 from Chesterfield Inlet, whence, Ellis tells us, 

 the ebb runs ten hours, while the flood is only 

 two*. 



The oflicers on their return at midnight with 

 a cargo of water, reported that the whole of 

 the coast on which they had landed, was of the 

 most barren description, of rugged, red, and 

 gray granite rocks, with the strata running in 

 a north-west direction. Several small rocky 

 islets were scattered along the shore, and salt, 

 as well as fresh-water lakes, extended to a con- 

 siderable distance inland. No traces of natives 

 were observable. Five deer were seen, with a 

 quantity of ducks in a moulting state. The 

 boats were left by the tide half a mile up the 



* The rise and fall was found by the leads to be twenty- 

 three feet. 



High water, full and change, four o'clock. 

 Velocity of the tide, one mile. 

 Direction of ebb, w.s.w Direction of flood, e.n.e. 



