200 FRANKLIN SOUND—KATER’S PEAK. April 1829. 
of them-would have destroyed our boat, and I was glad to 
cross the Sound without getting within their reach. We returned 
by the west side of Jerdan Island, where there are bights which 
might afford shelter to a small vessel. 
The Sound that separates Wollaston Island from the Bay of 
St. Francis, I named after Sir John Franklin, and the harbour 
to the east of the point on which we landed, after Lieutenant 
Kendall, who was one of Sir John Franklin’s companions in 
his last journey to the north-west coast of America. 
On the west point of Kendall Harbour, I observed a mag- 
netic property in the rock, which is of the same character as 
that on Saddle Island. Weddel noticed the same at St. Mar- 
tin’s Cove; but I placed the compass in various parts of that 
cove, without observing any difference from the correct bear- 
ing. 'This was, perhaps, owing to the rock being much covered 
with soil; for, being of the same character with that of the 
places above-mentioned, it should cause a similar effect. 
The next day S.W. gales and thick weather set in, and con- 
fined us almost to the ship. Taking advantage of a short inter- 
val of more moderate weather, I ascended the highest peak on 
the south side of the cove, immediately over the anchorage, 
taking two barometers, one of the Englefield construction, 
and the other a syphon barometer, on M. Gay Lussac’s plan, 
made by Bunten, of Paris. Mr. Harrison accompanied me, 
taking charge of one barometer, whilst I carried the other. 
My coxswain carried a theodolite. On landing, the barometers 
were set up at the edge of the water and read off, and at the 
same moment the barometer on board was read off. We then 
ascended, but the rise was so precipitously steep as to offer very 
great impediments ; and had it not been for a water-course, in 
whose bed we climbed for the first part, the ascent, with deli- 
cate instruments, would have been almost impracticable. We 
had ascended but little way, when the unfortunate theodolite 
escaped from my coxswain, rolled down the ravine, and was 
much damaged. It was an excellent magnetic transit, and for 
that purpose was irremediably injured; but, as a theodolite, 
it was yet useful. ‘The first third of the ascent, from the com- 
