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by. The-way in which we managed therefore, was 
by putting the compass on the snow until we got 
our eye fixed on some particular object, four or 
five hundred yards on, in the direction we wanted 
to go, and when we got there, taking a fresh mark 
in the same way. ‘This was always done by two 
persons who went on before the rest, so that those 
who dragged the cart never had any occasion to 
stop; indeed, asa proof thatthere was no time lost, 
we estimated that we walked over more ground this 
evening, than we had done at any one spell since we 
first started ; the ground being even, and the wind 
in our favour, contributed certainly very much, 
besides, we were a considerable time on the march, 
and did not stop until midnight. 
No living creature of any kind was seen to-day ; 
we saw however the track of a deer, and several 
foxes’ tracks. ‘The blue hills before mentioned 
were in sight the whole day. In our route we 
thought that we approached them a little, but I 
do not believe that we have been at any time with- 
in four leagues of them. About an hour before we 
halted this evening, (7. e. at eleven o’clock,) we 
descried a range of hills extending from north by 
east to the eastward, which we hailed with as much 
pleasure as mariners do land on first seeing it ; 
for the monotony of the plain we have been 
travelling over for these two days past, has been 
uninteresting in the extreme. How far these hills 
are off we can as yet form no certain estimate, but 
to have some object in view, let it be ever so remote, 
affords some satisfaction to the mind. Besides, 
I am in hopes fhat we have already reached the 
