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we flatter ourselves with the expectation of being 
equally successful next season. 
However, as we are likely to have time enough to 
speculate on this subject, before we leave this place, 
it is unnecessary to say any more about the matter 
now; I shall therefore conclude my narrative of 
this branch of our operations, by briefly stating the 
few remaining occurrences of this day. In the first 
instance, then, I have to remark, that in speaking 
of this place in future, it will be always called 
Winter Harbour, which is the name that it is hence- 
forth to be known by. I may say of this harbour, 
as I have just said about our future prospects, that as 
we are to be here for a considerable time, it is unne- 
cessary to enter into a lengthened detail respecting it 
at present, as we shall be able to give a better ac- 
count of it and its neighbourhood, before we leave 
it, than we can give at this time. It may not be im- 
proper, however, to observe, that as far as we are 
able to judge, it appears to bea place as well adapted 
in every way, for wintering in, as any which we could 
hope to find in these regions, allowing that we had a 
whole arctic summer to do nothing else but look for a 
harbour: for its mouth, or entrance, is, as I have al- 
ready remarked, partly guarded from the violence of 
the sea by a reef of rocks, over which there is, in 
some places, not above one fathom of water ; and be- 
tween this reef and the land, there is for the greater 
part of the way, a bar, or bank, over which we 
found, in some places, only 33 fathoms water. And 
where the ships are, although nearly at the top of 
the inlet, and within eighty-one fathoms of the 
beach, we have five fathoms water, which is the 
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