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of Esquimaux, for they never have heels to their 
shoes or boots; and, in fact, the size and shape of 
the footmarks were such as to satisfy us perfectly as 
to their origin. Irom this circumstance we may 
conclude that there is no great fall of snow in this 
country in the winter, since doubtless the melting of 
it would have effaced these tracks. After tracing 
them for some distance we resumed our course up the 
stream until we came to the foot of a mountain, 
which from the sea appeared to terminate the valley 
through which it flowed : but instead of finding the 
source of our stream here, as we imagined, we found 
that it issued from another valley to the right, or 
southward and westward. Our time being limited, 
we could not follow it any farther; at this time we 
were, as near as I could judge, about three miles and 
a half} or four miles, at farthest, from the sea. At 
this distance from the coast there were only two or 
three small patches of snow in the whole valley, and 
there was very little of it indeed for a considerable 
way beyond this up the sides of the mountains. 
The only animals we saw during our excursion were 
a Fox, (Canis Vulpes, Lin.); a Raven, (Corvus 
Coraz, Lin.); several Ring-Plovers, (Charadrius 
Hiaticula, Lin.); and Snow-Buntings, (Emberiza 
Nivalis, Lin.) ; a bee was also seen, from which we 
may infer that there is honey even in these wild 
regions. We saw several tracks of bears, and some 
cloven-footed animal, from their size apparently those 
of a reindeer, none of them however appeared to 
be very recent. Considering the high latitude in 
which this place is situated, vegetation flourishes re- 
markably well, for wherever there was moisture tufts 
