NORTHERN OCEAN. 
great’ depth, the dung of the mufk-oxen and 
deer was lying in fuch long and continued heaps, masiras 
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as clearly to point out that thofe places had been 
their much-frequented paths during the preced- 
ing Winter. There were alfo many other fimilar 
appearances on the hills, and other parts, where 
the fnow was entirely thawed away, without any 
print of a foot being vifible in the mofs; which 
is a certain proof that thefe long ridges of dung 
muft have been dropped in the {now as the beafts 
were pafling and repafling over it in the Winter. 
There are likewife fimilar proofs that the Alpine 
hare and the partridge do not migrate, but remain 
there the whole year: the latter we found in 
confiderable flocks among the tufts of willows 
which grow near the fea. 
It is perhaps not generally known, even to the 
curious, therefore may not be unworthy of obfer- 
vation, ‘that the dung of the mufk-ox, though fo 
Jarge an animal, is not larger, and at the fame time 
fo near the fhape and colour of that of the Alpine 
hare, that the difference is not eafily diftinguifh- 
ed but by the natives, though in general the quan- 
tity may lead to a difcovery of the animal to 
which it belongs. 
I did not fee any birds peculiar to thofe parts, 
except what the Copper Indians call the ‘“* Alarm 
“* Bird,” or Bird of Warning.’’ In fize and co- 
lour it refembles a Cobadekoock, and is of the 
owl genus. The name is faid to be well adapted 
to its qualities; for when it perceives any people, 
or 
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