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the boats, but no spruce or other timber. After reaching the head of 

 Rae Eiver, Cox's party crossed overland to the south side of Stapylton 

 Bay. They had no difficulty in killing a caribou whenever they needed 

 meat. Cox reached Bernard Harbor May 25. 



Chipman and O'Neill started on the western survey from Bernard 

 Harbo.r on March 17, 1915, going direct to the west end of Damley 

 Bay and working east. Connecting with the previous surveys of the 

 Parry peninsula, the survey was carried east during April, the season 

 being much further advanced than it was farther east during the same 

 period. 



The southern part of Darnley Bay had never been surveyed before 

 and only imperfectly explored. Two fairly large rivers flow into the 

 south and southeast sides of the bay. Inland on the east side of 

 Damley Bay beach gravels and terraces above 500 feet were found. 

 From Darnley Bay until east of Deas Thompson Point there are a 

 number of high points which have received the name of mountains, but 

 no definite system or range is apparent. The highest of these points 

 (Mount Davy) is between the Croker and Inman Rivers. The coast 

 has a well-defined shore-line of rock or boulders and gravel. None of 

 the rivers flowing to the coast east of Darnley Bay extend any great 

 distance inland. Both valleys and beds indicate a very heavy run-off 

 in a short time. 



The coast-line as traversed from Cape Lyon eastward was found to 

 be somewhat more straight than the former charts give it, but this is 

 apparently due to the practical impossibility of sketching a coast-line 

 accurately on a hurried boat-passage some distance offshore, with in- 

 frequent landings. This method has given the result that many of 

 the so-called points on this coast are not salient projections of the 

 coast-line. More often the charted points and capes are high land or 

 rock cliffs with low land on either side. This gives the higher places 

 the appearance of points or capes when viewed from a distance. Our 

 method of locating control points at frequent intervals by latitude, 

 longitude and azimuth observations, traversing between these points 

 by frequent compass sights and pacing all the intervening shore-line, 

 will undoubtedly give a more accurate map. No serious rectification 

 was necessary however until Stapylton Bay and eastward. Numerous 

 fossil shells are found along the old beach terraces. West of Chantry 

 Island fossils were collected from the 15-foot and 30-foot horizons. 

 These fossils may be duplicated on the present strand-line. Near the 

 mouth of Inman River, fossil shells were found in numbers up to 

 170 feet above sea-level. 



In an examination of the rocks from the foot of Darnley Bay to 

 Cape Krusenstern, no evidence of the existence of copper was seen. 



After returning from the inland trip up the Coppennine, I started 

 west from Bernard Harbor April 21 to reinforce the western survey 

 party, meeting Chipman and O'Neill coming east near Deas Thompson 



