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able augmentations were moreover seen drifting 

 in from the western sea. Finding nothing could 

 be effected in Bellot Strait, we sought in vain 

 for the more southern channel which should 

 exist to form Levesque Island : we did, however, 

 find a beautiful harbour, and are now securely 

 anchored in its north-west arm ; I have named 

 it after the gentleman whose former island I 

 have thus reluctantly converted into the north- 

 ern extreme of the Boothian Peninsula, and 

 consequently of the American continent. The 

 south-western angle of Brentford Bay is still 

 covered with unbroken ice. 



This evening we all landed to explore our 

 new ground. Young and Petersen shot some 

 brent geese ; Walker saw two deer, but he was 

 botanising, and had no gun ; others were seen 

 by some of the men, and followed, but without 

 success. 



I enjoyed a delightfully refreshing ramble, a 

 mile or two inland, through a gently ascending 

 valley, then two miles along the narrow margin 

 of a pretty little lake between mountains, 

 beyond which lay a much larger one, four 

 or five miles in diameter ; this farther lake was 

 only partially divested of its winter ice. Here 

 the scenery was not only grand, but beautiful ; 

 there was enough of vegetation to tint the 



