218 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVER¥ 
are rarely to be met with of any considerable 
size. ? 
Sunday, 11th. — The weather cleared up this 
morning, the wind having veered round to the 
N. W. We therefore packed up our tents and re- 
sumed our journey at five o’clock. Our first out- 
set was up the south side of the ravine in which 
we slept last night; this we found to be an under- 
taking that required all our exertions, for it was 
so steep, that it took us nearly three-quarters of an 
hour to get the cart up. Our route afterwards 
was for about three hours over a plain covered 
with snow. It appeared to be of a considerable 
height, for we had a very extensive view from it 
in every direction. After we got to the end of this 
plain, a very romantic prospect all at once pre- 
sented itself to our view; for we beheld at the foot 
of the plain, and about two or three miles to the 
south-eastward of it, a sheet of ice of great width, 
with an island about three-quarters of a mile in 
length, rising abruptly from the middle of it to 
the height of six or seven hundred feet. The 
shores of this lake, or gulf (for we were unable at 
this time to say which it was) appeared to be very 
rugged and precipitous, particularly on the north- 
west side, or that on which we were. We con- 
tinued to approach it until ten o’clock, when, going 
down the side of a steep and rough hill that lay 
on the north side, the axle-tree of the cart snapt 
in the middle. As this was an injury that we had | 
no possible means of repairing, it required no 
time to consider what was to be done; we there- 
fore got every thing immediately taken off, 
