wind, and expending our stock of provision. In 

 the afternoon the weather cleared up, and several 

 men went hunting, but they were unsuccessful. 

 During the day the ice floated backwards and 

 forwards in the harbour, moved by currents, not 

 regular enough to deserve the name of tide, and 

 which appeared to be governed by the wind. We 

 perceived great diminution by melting in the 

 pieces near us. That none of this ice survives 

 the summer is evident, from the rapidity of its 

 decay ; and because no ice of last year's forma- 

 tion was hanging on the rocks. Whether any 

 body of it exists at a distance from the shore, 

 we cannot determine. 



The land around Cape Barrow, and to Deten- 

 tion Harbour, consists of steep craggy mountains 

 of granite, rising so abruptly from the water's 

 edge, as to admit of few landing-places even for a 

 canoe. The higher parts attain an elevation of 

 one thousand four hundred or one thousand five 

 hundred feet ; and the whole is entirely destitute 

 of vegetation. 



On the morning of the 27th the ice remaining 

 stationary at the entrance, we went to the bottom 

 of the harbour, and carried the canoes and cargoes 

 about a mile and a half across the point of land 

 that forms the east side of it ; but the ice was not 



