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land within a day's march, inclined more to the 

 east. We went from ten to twelve miles along 

 the coast, which continued flat, and kept the same 

 direction as the encampment. The most distant 

 land we saw had the same bearing north-north- 

 east, and appeared like two islands, which we 

 estimated to be six or seven miles off; the shore 

 on their side seemingly tended more to the east, 

 so that it is probable Point Turnagain, for so this 

 spot was named, forms the pitch of a low flat 

 cape. 



Augustus killed a deer in the afternoon, but 

 the men were not able to find it The hunters 

 found the burrows of a number of white foxes, 

 and Hepburn killed one of these animals, which 

 proved excellent eating, esteemed by us as equal 

 to the young geese, with which it was boiled, and 

 far superior to the lean deer we had upon the 

 coast. Large flocks of geese passed over the 

 tents, flymg to the southward. The lowest tern- 

 perature to-day was 38°. 



Though it wiU appear from the chart, that the 

 position of Point Turnagain is only six degrees 



and a half to the 



east of the mouth of the Copper- 



Mme River; we sailed, in tracing the deeply 

 indented coast, five hundred and fifty-five geo- 

 graphic miles, which is little less than the direct 

 distance between the Copper-Mine River and 



