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Our progress was slow, and we were chilled by rain and fog 

 and by a piercing northerly wind. At one point we passed a 

 large lake, at an elevation of about i,ooo feet, full of little 

 islands and jutting peninsulas, and stretching away appar- 

 ently for several miles into the fog. The slate deposits con- 

 tinued, and in a few places we found sandstones and 

 conglomerates or breccias. We finally descended from this 

 plateau into a gorge at a height of 850 feet, then climbed 

 rather steeply against a bitterly cold wind, turned slightly 

 westward, and at noon stopped for lunch in a gully where we 

 were sheltered from the wind, at a height of 2,000 feet. A 

 light snow fell about us, the temperature was 2>7° , ^i^d we 

 had to shiver vigorously to keep warm. Our gully was one 

 of the level-floored formations that had interested us the day 

 before. We crossed it, climbed up slightly higher, and then 

 began to descend slowly, having passed the summit of the 

 pass. At our left lay a long valley, far below us, stretching 

 ofT toward the western end of Ramah Bay, which soon came 

 into sight. A succession of curving summits lay before us, 

 on the right of the valley, and along the flanks of these we 

 marched, keeping at a high level. The summits were all 

 concealed in the fog. We continued walking over long 

 reaches of slate, which finally became smoother. At 4.30 we 

 stopped to take a photograph of the picturesque grouping 

 of mountains across the bay. Three sharp peaks lay to the 

 right, and broader, more rounded ones rose massively fur- 

 ther west, with the waters of the bay at their feet. Soon after 

 we stopped again to photograph the mission house. Back 

 of it lay a mountain, ending toward the east in, two abrupt 

 cliffs, their feet bathed in the waters at the entrance of the 

 bay, the nearer one bright in sunlight that struggled through 



