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fish, he returned, and went to tlie southward, wliere he was more 

 successful. On Sunday morning, the 6th of August, going un- 

 der easy sail, about GO miles to tlie S. of Lancaster-sound, he 

 saw a considerable inlet, and a ship higher up in it : turning up 

 the inlet, he was struck with sounds from the shore, which prov- 

 ed to be inhabitants making strange gestures and screams. He 

 and part of the crew landed, and bv courteous signs' overcame 

 their timidity, and were conducted by a male who had lost botli 

 feet, probably by the frost, and a female about 13 years of age, to 

 their huts made of the skins of seal and deer. Jt was found that 

 most of the population were absent on the hills hunting ; only a 

 few males, and some women, but a great number of children, 

 being left. They seemed docile and hospitable, exchanging 

 their skin jackets for those of the sailors, and stripjjing naked 

 without the least hesitation, to put on tlie new dress. They 

 seemed to pay some adoration to the Sun. 



" The ship's company here caught some fish, and found rea- 

 son to believe that the inlet communicated with Lancaster-sound. 

 Captain VVarham found the variation of the compass to be W. 

 of the true N. about 100 degrees, and thinks the magnetic pole 

 is somewhere there, as the dip is prodigious. The ships tlien 

 stretched N.E. for Sir Thomas Smith's sound, in lat. 1^\, long. 

 64,, leaving Alderman Jones's sound on the larboard side : he 

 made Hackluyt's Island 11 \, long. 60., and completed his fishing 

 near Cape Dudley Digges. Coming down Davis's-straits, and 

 even to Cape Farewell, he fell in with ice, and ma-ny icebergs, 

 having in snow-showers to thread his way through them ; and 

 finally passed the latter cape on the 3d Sept. 



" Captain Warham is cautious of speaking of any thing but 

 what he saw, is a good uiathematician and astronomer, and 

 quite fitted for active and intelligent observation." 



ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



Lieutenant Frankland and his companions were left all well 

 on the 30lh Jiuie last, 700 miles up the country from Hudson's 

 Bay. By the beginning of September they would, no doubt, ar- 

 rive at the Copper-Mine River. 



IRON KRIDGB OVER THE RIVER CHALMER. 



This bridge, which docs great credit to the architect Mr.Dodd, 

 was opened for the public on Friday the 15th of Sept. 1S20. It 

 crosses the Chahner in the county of Essex at Springfield, ia 

 the great east road leading from Chelmsford to Colchester, Har- 

 wich, to the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk. It is a beautiful 

 structure, and differs from all the iron bridges hitherto erected, 

 hy requiring no buttresses, but resting on iron columns or stand- 

 ards driven into the banks of the river, having no lateral pres- 

 sure, but tncrelv resting on its supports. 



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