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spacious inlet, from four to five leagues in breadth, 
that ran to the southward. The entrance of it was, 
like Regent’s Iniet, full of ice. It is to be named, 
I understand, Admiralty Inlet. From the east side 
of this inlet, the character of the land is very 
much changed, for here the stratification ceases ; 
and the land, instead of rising abruptly from the 
sea, ascends gradually as it recedes from the coast, 
so that the highest part of it, or that which termi- 
nated our view, was a long way inland. About 
eight leagues to the eastward of the above inlet, is 
the opening that was called in our former voyage, 
Barrow’s Bay ; but from the view that we had of 
it this morning, we have strong reasons to doubt 
its being a bay, for we were much nearer to it than 
we had ever been before, and we could see no 
land at the bottom of it. The space that was 
open did not appear indeed, to be very wide; 
but wherever the continuity of land is not ac- 
tually seen, I think it would be presumption to 
assert, that there is no passage, especially in re- 
gions like these, that have never been explored. 
This bay, or inlet, or whatever it may be termed, 
was like that which we passed in the morning, 
full of ice; at the entrance of it there appeared 
to be two low islands, and at the bottom, and 
nearly in the middle of the opening, another 
small, round-topped island; but this last was so 
far off, that we were in doubt whether it 
might not be the top of a distant hill. In the 
course of the afternoon we passed a large bear 
swimming, at the distance of two miles at least 
from the land; a boat was dispatched after him, 
