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feet high, and extending for an unknown distance. 

 Mr. Archer remarked that, considering the height 

 to which he ascended, it was somewhat remarkable 

 that no high mountains were visible at any great dis- 

 tance to the westward. 



Two small glaciers were observed on the southern 

 shore of the sound in valleys descending from the 

 mountains on Judge Daly Peninsula* In both cases 

 the glaciers ended at a distance of about a mile from 

 the sea. 



A herd of eleven musk-oxen were seen, but none 

 were procured. The tracks of hares were numerous 

 in the neighbourhood of Ella Bay and other places ; 

 two of these animals were shot. 



After an, absence of twenty-four days the party 

 under the command of Lieutenant Archer returned in 

 good health to Discovery Bay. 



Mr. Conybeare, who commanded the auxiliary 

 sledge in the expedition to Lady Franklin Sound, had 

 returned to the ' Discovery ' on the 20th of April, after 

 an absence of twelve days from the ship. His crew of 

 eleven men were in excellent health with the exception 

 of one, who was slightly frost-bitten in the foot. The 

 only fresh meat obtained by this party was a single 

 hare, which was killed on the southern side of Bellot 

 Island. 



On the 2nd of May Mr. Conybeare left the ' Dis- 

 covery' with a crew of eleven men to transport a 

 fifteen-foot ice-boat across Hall's Basin to Polaris Bay. 

 On the 5th of the same month, Lieutenant Archer's 

 return having placed a greater number of men at his 

 disposal, Captain Stephenson decided to send two boats 



