In the An 



for our operations was hastening away; bnt afl 

 rounding Cape Croker the wind b og that 



we could proceed no further. The distance we had 

 made being only six miles on a north-east by easl 

 course. The Bhore on which we encamped is formed 

 of the debris of red Band-stone, and Is destitute of vi 

 tatinu. Tlic beach fumishos no drift wood, and 

 dispensed with our usual meal rather than expend 

 our pemmican. Several deer ••■ d, but the hunt- 



could not approach them : they killed two swans. 

 Weobserved the latitude 68* I 20", where we hall 

 to breakfast this morning. 



L3. — Though the wind was not diminished, 

 we wen- urged, by the want of fire-wood, to venture 

 upon pi We jaddlcd close to the Bhore for 



Borne miles, and then ran before the breeze with reefed 

 sails, ly two feet in depth. Both the canoes 



ived much water, and one of them Btruck twit n 



sunken rocks. At. the end of eighteen miles we halted 



to breakfasl in a hay, which T have named after Vi 

 Admiral Sir William Johnstone Bope, one of the 

 Lords of the Admiralty. 



We found here a considerable quantity of Bmall 

 willows, such as are broughl down by the rivers we 

 have hitherto seen ; and hence we judged, that a river 



lt8elf into the bottom of this hay. A | 



die was also found, which A on examination, 



