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time, the traverse across its mouth was attended 

 with much danger, from the approach of a large 

 field of ice, which was driving down before the 

 wind. The dread of further detention, however, 

 prevented us from hesitating ; and we had the 

 satisfaction of landing in an hour and a half on 

 the opposite shore, where we halted to repair the 

 canoes, and to dine. I have named this bay after 

 my friend Mr. Daniel Moore of Lincoln's Inn ; 

 to whose zeal for science, the Expedition was in- 

 debted for the use of a most valuable chronometer. 

 Its shores are picturesque ; sloping hiUs receding 

 from the beach, and clothed with verdure, bound 

 its bottom and western side ; and lofty cliffs of 

 slate clay, with their intervening grassy valleys, 

 skirt its eastern border. Embarking at midnight, 

 we pursued our voyage without interruption, 

 passing between the Stockport and Marcet Islands 

 and the main, until six A.M. on July 30th; when, 

 having rounded Point Kater, we entered Arctic 

 Sound, and were again involved in a stream of 

 ice, but afler considerable delay extricated our- 

 selves, and proceeded towards the bottom of the 

 inlet in search of the mouth of a river, which we 

 supposed it to receive, from the change in the 

 colour of the water. 



About ten A.M. we landed, to breakfast on a 



