In the Arctic Regions. A US 



we stood ander sail along thi i about five miles 



beyond Poinl Btokea ; but there we wen' again oom- 

 [ed by the closeness of the ice to stop, and from the 

 top of a sand-hill we could not discover any water in 

 the direction of our course. The tents were there! 

 pitched, and the boats unloaded, and hauled on the 

 beach. Heavy rain came on in the evening, by which 

 we indulged the hope that the ice might be loosened. 

 We were encamped on a low hank of gravel which 

 runs alonj; the base of a chain of sand-hills about one 

 hundred and fifty feet high, and forms the coast line. 

 The hank was covered with drift timber, and is the 

 site of a deserted Esquimaux village. The snow still 

 remaining in the ravines was tinged with light red 

 spots. The night was calm, and the ice remained in 

 the same fixed state until six in the morning of the 

 17th, when, perceiving the pieces in the offing to be 

 in motion we launched the boats, and by breaking our 

 way at first with hatchets, and then forcing with the 

 poles through other streams of ice, we contrived to 

 reach Borne lanes of water, along which we navigated 

 for four hours. A strong breeze springing up from 

 seaward, caused the ice to close so fast upon the boat, 

 that we were obliged to put again to the shore, and 



land on a low bank, similar to that on which we had 



rested the night before. It was intersected, however, 



by many pools and channels of water, which cut off 



