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was driving down before the wind, The dread of fur- 
ther detention, however, prevented us from hesitating ; 
and we had the satisfaction of landing in an hour and 
a half on the opposite shore, where we halted ‘to re- 
pair the canoes and to dine. I have named this bay 
after my friend Mr. Daniel Moore of Lincoln’s Inn ; 
to whose zeal for science, the Expedition was indebt- 
ed for the use of a most valuable chronometer. Its 
shores are picturesque ; sloping hills receding from; 
the beach, and clothed with verdure, bound its bot- 
tom and western side; and lofty. cliffs of slate clay, 
with their intervening grassy valleys, skirt its eastern 
border. Embarking at midnight, we pursued our voy- 
age without interruption, passing between the Stock- 
port and Marcet Islands and the main, until six A.M. 
on July 30th ; when having rounded Point Kater, we 
entered Arctic Sound, and were again involved in a 
streatn of ice, but after considerable delay extricated 
ourselves, and proceeded towards the bottom of the 
inlet in search of the mouth of a river, which we sup- 
posed it.to receive, from the change in the color of 
‘the Water, 
# About ten A.M. we landed, to breakfast on a small 
‘deer which St. Germain had killed : and sent men in 
pursuit of some others in sight, but with which they 
did not.ceme up. Re-embarking, we passed the river 
without perceiving it, and entered a deep arm of the 
