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and all of them were, like those mentioned yester- 
day, covered with snow. In their general character 
they resemble those that we saw in this neighbour- - 
hood last year, that is, they are low, and even 
surfaced. This description does not, however, 
apply to them all, for several seen this forenoon 
were high, and, in many places, rugged. It was 
so dark last night that we were obliged to lay to 
for three hours; we have made considerable pro- 
gress to-day, however, for we got in the evening 
to the west end of Barrow’s Straits. We have in 
the course of the day seen a number of malle- 
mucks, which, as far as I remember, are the first 
birds of the kind that we have met with for these 
twelve months past. 
Wednesday, 80th. — The blank space where we 
saw no land last year, from 91° to 92° of west 
longitude, owing to the distance we were from it, 
we found last night to be a continuous line of 
coast, having a kind of large open bay in it, facing 
to the northward. Early this morning we got to 
the entrance of Regent’s Inlet *, which I under- 
stand was full of ice, consequently no attempt was 
made to get into it. ‘This being the easternmost 
inlet or opening that we know of, leading to the 
southward, the object of making any further 
attempts in that direction, appears to be at length 
abandoned, or rather it seems that it is now 
* This being, I believe, the first time that I have used this 
name, it may be necessary to remark, that the place called 
Regent’s Inlet, is that large opening leading to the southward 
and westward, into which we sailed the second week of August 
last year. 
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