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of Detention Harbor at nine P. M., having come 

 twenty-eight miles. An old Esquimaux encampment 

 was traced on this spot ; and an ice chisel, a copper 

 knife, and a small iron knife were found under the 

 turf. I have named this cape after Mr. Barrow of the 

 Admiralty, to whose exertions are mainly owing the 

 discoveries that have recently been made in Arctic 

 geography. An opening on its eastern side has re- 

 ceived the appellation of Inman Harbor, after my 

 friend the Professor at the Koyal Naval College, 

 Portsmouth ; and to a group of islands to seaward of 

 it, we gave the name of Jameson, in honor of the dis- 

 languished Professor of Mineralogy at Edinburgh. 



We had much wind and rain during the night, and 

 by the morning of the 26th a great deal of ice had 

 drifted into the inlet. "We embarked at four and at- 

 tempted to force a passage, when the first canoe got 

 enclosed, and remained for some time in a very peril- 

 ous situation ; the pieces of ice, crowded together by 

 the action of the current and wind, pressing strongly 

 against its feeble sides. A partial opening, however, 

 occurring, we landed without having sustained any 

 serious injury. Two mm were then sent round the 

 and it was ascertained thai instead of having 



I a, narrow passage between an island and the 



main, we were at the mouth of a harbor, having an 

 island at its entrance ; and that it was necessary to 



