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of clouds, and other clouds above it were lighted with long 

 bands of brilliant gold and rose. A ruddy light gleamed over 

 the whole surface of the lake. To the north and west rose 

 groups of higher mountains, range behind range, with an 

 occasional lake or arm of the sea visible between them. The 

 farther ones were covered with a purple haze. To the south 

 and east was the sea, forming a long, irregular Hne at its 

 juncture with the mainland, and covered with the numerous 

 islands of the Adlavik group." 



Of the view from a hill at Ford Harbor, August 8: 

 "The view is one of the most enchanting I ever saw. High 

 mountains most picturesquely grouped, islands without num- 

 ber dotting the sea, and a general combination that could 

 hardly be surpassed." 



Of Port Manvers, August 11 and 12: "The mountains 

 hereabout are high and steep, very impressive in their ap- 

 pearance. They are made of very friable rock, forming 

 coarse gravel at their bases, and beaches of fine sand in the 

 protected bays. Mt. Thoresby, south of the Port, is 2,y2,i 

 feet high. It rises gradually on its southern slopes, but falls 

 very steeply, with much gullied sides, to the harbor. . . . 

 We traversed three miles of sandy beach, climbed a steep 

 rise to an enormous gravel plain that was once a shallow bar 

 connecting a rocky island to the mainland, but now lies 170 

 to 200 feet above the sea; then up the course of a brook, 

 across a damp, sogg}^ level where our feet sank deeply into 

 the soft moss and turf, and up steeply along another stretch 

 of the brook into a narrow valley lying between two round, 

 green hills perhaps 1,500 feet above the sea. . . . Thence 

 we climbed up the steep mountain side to the right, over a 

 precipitous snow bank, and onto the top. On one side, 



