200 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
from the northward and westward this morning, 
which soon opened.a passage along shore; we, © 
therefore, got under weigh at six o’clock, and 
made sail to the eastward. We were a good deal 
hampered with ice during the forenoon; but in 
the afternoon we got into a clear sea, so that by 
six in the evening we were abreast of Winter Har- 
bour. We saw very plainly with the naked eye, 
as we went along, the pile of stones on North East 
Hill, although it was estimated that we passed at 
the distance of seven or eight miles from it. The 
monument on Table Hill was also in sight during 
most part of the afternoon, in fact every hill 
that appeared in sight was recognised; and _ al- 
though I believe none regretted taking this last 
farewell view of the ground that we had so often 
trod, yet it was impossible to look at it with the 
same indifference as at other parts of the coast; for 
every object reminded us of some circumstance or 
other that happened during our perambulations 
these eleven months past. In the evening we got 
into so wide a space of clear water that no ice 
could be seen even to the southward, except from 
the mast-head. 
Sunday, 27th.— We had a fine run to-day to 
the eastward, and were in the evening off the 
east end of Melville Island. As this is the first 
time that I have made use of this name, it may be 
necessary to mention that the island off or on which 
our exploits have been performed for these twelve 
months past, is named after the nobleman who 
presides as first lord of the admiralty ; and I un- 
derstand that it, and all the islands that lie in its 
