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half months. Dovekies are likewise abundant, 

 and a seal has already been shot. Cresswell 

 Bay is perfectly clear of ice, but this pale lime- 

 stone land is the. perfection of sterility, even 

 with the rugged hills of Brentford Bay in lively 

 recollection. 



Upon the east side of Port Kenedy the bones 

 of whales were found in two places a mile apart 

 from each other; the lowest of them was 180 

 feet above the sea, the second was more than 

 300 feet high. The latter I examined, and 

 found a jaw-bone, two ribg, a joint of the 

 vertebrae, and fragments of other bones, all 

 more or less buried in the soil, and much 

 heavier than the bones of a recent animal ; 

 they lay within 40 or 50 yards of each other, 

 and upon a little flat patch of rather rich earth, 

 a rocky hill above, and steep slope below ; — 

 they are also nearly a mile inland. 



Of the traces which we have left behind us, 

 the most considerable are the graves of our two 

 shipmates within the western point of our little 

 harbour ; they were tastefully sodded round, and 

 planted over with the usual Arctic flowers. 

 There is our record in a conspicuous cairn at 

 the west point of Depot or Transition Bay : we 

 left also three cases of pemmican near the east 



