In the Arctic Regions. 4GI 



ly c1m.mi1. We encamped od the western Bide of a 

 river aboul two hundred yards broad, which, at the 

 request of Lieutenant Back, was named after Mr. 

 B khouse, one of the under Secretaries of State for 

 Foreign Affairs. It appeared that the water that 

 flowed from this channel had caused the opening by 

 which we had traveled from our last resting-place ; 

 for beyond if, the ice was closely packed. 

 Th 5Jth.* y ' ^ ,,,no heavy rain fell in the night, and the 

 morning of the 27th was foggy ; but the sun, about 

 noon, having dispersed the fog, we discovered an uj.cn 

 channel, about half a mile from the shore. 



, ! /,;! :, - v < The morningof the 29th opened with hi avy 

 rain and fog ; the precursors of a strong gale from 

 E.N.E., which brought back the ice we had already 

 passed, and closely packed it along the beach, hut we 

 could not perceive that the wind had the slighest 

 effect on the main body at a distance from the shore. 

 This was a v< rj colo\ comfortless day, the temperature 

 between 38° and 42°. On the following morning a 

 brilliant sun contributed with the gale to the disj 

 sion of the mist which had, for Borne days •• r- 



hung the Bocky Mountains, and we had the gratifica- 

 tion of Beeing, for the first time, the whole length of 

 the British Chain of Mountains, which arc no 

 peaked and irregular in their outline, and more 

 picturesque than those of the Buckland Range. In 



