440 Thirty Years 
CHAPTER XVI 
suvigh, ALTHOUGH itvained heavily during the night, 
and the wind blew strong off the land for some hours, 
there was no other change in the state of the ice on 
the morning of the 14th, than that the smaller pieces- 
were driven a short way from the beach. The day’ 
was foggy and rainy, but the evening fine. The bank 
under which we were encamped is of the same earthy 
kind as that described on the 9th, but rather higher 
and steeper. It contains much wood-coal, similar to 
that found in the Mackenzie River, and at Garry’s Is- 
land. The beach and the beds of the rivulets that 
flow through the ravines, consist of coarse gravel. 
Specimens of its stones, of the coal, and of the plants 
in flower, were added to the collection. "We saw two 
marmots, and two reindeer, which were too wary to 
allow of our getting within shot of them. Between 
noon and ten P.it., the loose ice was driving in front of © 
the encampment from the N.W. to 8.E., and at the 
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