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that we used in a few minutes to collect enough 
to make a sallad every day to our dinner. With 
respect to the mineralogical character of those 
parts, I observed nothing different from what 
was seen in the immediate neighbourhood of 
Winter Harbour, viz. sandstone, composing the 
whole of the fixed rocks, and the greatest part of 
the loose stones also; granite, limestone, and 
small pieces of red felspar were frequently 
met with, but these formed but a very small 
proportion when compared with the quantity of 
sandstone. Having thus taken a cursory review 
of the mineral and vegetable productions that 
we had an opportunity of seeing, my next ob- 
ject is to notice the different kinds of animals. 
The deer were not so numerous as we ex- 
pected to find them, for two dozen, or thirty at 
most, were as many as we saw the whole time 
we were out, and of these we only succeeded in 
killing two; this we attributed in a great measure 
to the shyness of the does, for they were so careful 
of their young, that there was no possibility of 
getting near them. ‘The two deer that we killed 
were very lean, although they appeared to be full- 
grown ; the first one weighed only 54 lbs. when 
skinned and cleaned, and the other which we got 
about a week after 64 lbs. Their horns were not 
above nine or ten inches in length; they were 
covered with a soft skin, which had a fine downy 
coat ; their tips were flexible, but if bent much, 
were easily broken ; the substance of the horns 
was very porous, and full of blood. The colour 
not only of these two, but indeed of all the deer 
we saw, was white, with the exception of a light 
