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humor and no little exaggeration. The consideration 
that the most painful, and certainly the most hazard- 
ous, part of the journey was yet to come, did not de- 
press their spirits at all. Itis due to their charac- 
ter to mention that they displayed much: courage in 
encountering the dangers of the sea, magnified to them 
by their novelty. 
The shores between Cape Barrow and Cape Flin- 
ders, including the extensive branches of Arctic and 
Melville Sounds, and Bathurst’s Inlet, may be com- 
prehended in one great gulf, which I have distinguish- 
ed by the appellation of George IV.’s Coronation 
Gulf, in honor of His Most Gracious Majesty, the lat- 
ter name being added to mark the time of its discov- 
ery. The Archipelago of islands which fringe the 
coast from Copper-Mine River to Point Turnagain, I 
have named in honor of His Royal Highness the Duke 
of York. 
It may be deserving of notice, that the extremes in 
temperature of the sea water during our voyage were 
53° and 35°, but its general temperature was between 
‘43° and 48°, Throughout our return from Point 
Turnagain we observed that the sea had risen several 
feet above marks left at our former encampments. 
This may, perhaps, be attributed to the north-west 
gales, 
August 26.—Previous te our departure this morn- 
