[■<cbruaiy, J869. Minerals JfoM Admiralty Inlet. 371 



and wbenever tUcy do thus succeed, the stones are hard and glass-like. This 

 seems to l)e myth-like to me, but some one in the States may find this matter 

 explainable. * * * 



Since \vritin.i> the above, I have looked into the Admiralty Manual of Sci- 

 entific Inquiry and Ibund the following : " With regard to dimorphism, or the 

 crystallization of the same chemically composed substances in diiferent forms 

 * * * , right rhomboidal crystals of sulphate of nickel exposed in a vase 

 to the sun were found changed in the interior without passing through the liquid 

 state into octahedrons with a square base, the exterior crust of the original crys- 

 tal retaining its first form." (Pp. 251 and 252, edition of 1851.) 



That there is something peculiar in these crystals of Admiralty Inlet that 

 makes all the Innuits there, and all distant lunuits who have heard about them, 

 think they are sometimes as though alive, I do not doubt from the deeply -inter- 

 esting account given by Ar-Tta-too. 



Early in the month of January the natives renewed their seaHng 

 on the ice of the baj^, and Hall's party again fixed their headquarters 

 at Talloon, in a commo^lious igloo built on a lakelet, where a well of 

 pure water was easily made near the bed-platform of the hut. The 

 igloo was made comfortable for eleven inhabitants. It was carefully- 

 lined with skins hung within five or six inches of the snow- walls, mak- 

 ing inside of it a tupik. This main building was an oval 22 feet long, 

 13 wide, and 8 feet high, and was connected by a tooh-soo (passage-way). 

 It had six store-liouse huts. The floor of the passage-way, as usual, 

 was lower in the middle than either at the doorway or at the entrance 

 of the main building. A door of hard snow for each store-house was 

 fitted into a casemate of the same " pure white marble." 



In these quarters the chief business of February and of March was 

 the drying of venison over the native lamps — a slow and very laborious 

 process. While this was going on, the door-ways were closed, and 

 five lamps whose united length of wick was fifty-six inches, were 

 kept blazing day and night, consuming 78 pounds of blubber a week. 



