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apparently free. On the 12th of October the boats returned to tae ships, and 
next day the vessel proceeded, with a strong northerly gale, through the Torsuka- 
lak Channel to Julianshaab, where she arrived on the 22ad of October. Having 
completed a survey of the port and the adjacent fiord, the Fox proceeded to the 
examination of a deep and romantic fiord called Tgalika Fiord, into which large 
icebergs never enier, and in the channel of which sufficient water was found 
effectually to prevent the grounding of the largest ever seen. Captain Young, 
after returning to Julianshaab, sounded the estuary of the fiord oui to sea, and 
found that a uniform channel, 160 fathoms deep, could be depended on—a depth, 
it is needless to mention, considerably greater than that of any iceberg ever seen 
upon the coast. The winter had now fairly set in, and for weeks past quantities 
of ice had formed upon the surface of the bays and fiords, continually breaking 
up beiore it attained any consideradle thickness; so Captain Young determined to 
return to England at the earliest apporiunity, tae season being over for proceeding 
with the examinations of either the Greenland coast or that of Labrador. But, at 
the beginning of November, the fiord through which Dr. Rae’s party would have 
to pass on their return to the ship from their inlaad examination, was found to be 
frozen 16 miles from the head, and it was not without considerable difficulty that 
a sledge party reached them on the 6th of November, and informed them that a 
boat awaited their arrival at the open water. On the Sth of November the Foz 
Sailed irom Julianshaab, and afier a rapid run of 15 days she entered Portland 
Roads. The results of the cruise are universally considered by those who accom- 
panied ihe expedition to be most satisfactory. Colonel Shaffner’s statements as 
to the existence of long deep fiords, in which the water was so deep as to preclude 
the remoiest possibility of a cable being injured by ice or icebergs is fully con- 
firmed. ‘The existence of drift ice along the south coast is in reality no difficulty ; 
it only prevails at the commencement of the season, ualess in an exceptional year 
such as that recently experienced. Even when thickest its movements with 
various winds are so perfectly understood, that, under the command of experienced 
eaptains, many frail ships, totally unadapied to ise navigation, annually visit and 
return from all parts of the coast in safety. With regard to the American termi- 
nus of the line, now that the Greenland difficulty has been removed, when once 
the line has been carried to the latter in the 50th par. of western longitude, the 
landing on the opposite shore can be selected on any point within some hundieds 
of miles without materially increasing the length of the circuit. 
IRON TRADE OF MARQUETTE: LAKE SUPERIOR. 
We extract from a Marquette Journal, the following notice of the rise and 
progress of the iron trade of that district. On witnessing the activity displayed 
at the Marquette mines, during a visit to Lake Superior last summer, we could 
not help regretting most acutely that our Canadian ores of Marmora and the 
adjacent townships should be lying idle, purely for want of a railway or team- 
way to the front. The distance of Marmora from the Lake shore, is not greater 
than that between Marquette and the ore-beds of that region; and there are no 
engineering difficulties to render the construction a costly one. In matters of 
this kind, our enterprising neighbours leave us certainly far behind. 
