442 Thirty Years 
ways, aud Augustus went to visit an Esquimaux 
family that were on an island contiguous to our en- 
campment, 
We now discovered that the Rocky Moustains do 
not form a continuous chain, but that they run in de- 
tached ranges at unequal distances from the coast. 
The Richardson chain commencing opposite the mouth 
of the Mackenzie, terminates within view of our pres- 
ent situation. Another range, which I have named 
in honor of Professor Buckland, begins on the west- 
ern side of Phillips Bay, and extending to the bound- 
ary of our view, is terminated by the Conybeare 
Mountain. 
It gave me great pleasure to affix the name of my ° 
friend Mr. Babbage to the river we had discovered, 
and that of Mr. Phillips, Professor of Rainting at the 
Royal Academy, to the bay into which its waters are 
emptied. We learned from the Esquimaux that this 
river, which they call Césk-Keaktok, or Rocky River, 
descends from a very distant part of the interior, 
though they are unacquainted with its course beyond 
the mountains. It appeared to us to flow between 
the Cupola and Barn mountains of the Richardson 
chain, There are many banks of gravel near its 
mouth, but above these obstructions the channel ap- 
peared deep, and to be about two miles’ broad. There 
were no rocks in sit#, or large stones, near the en- 
