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bolts to which the vessels were secured may still be seen 
leaded into the smooth glaciated granite shores. Besides 
the ring-bolts, many interesting carvings are to be seen 
cut on the surface of the smooth rocks. Amongst them 
are the following: —“ Furnace and Discovery 1741,” 
“J. Horner 1746,” “J. Morley 1748,” “James Walker 
Miyey2o 1753, “Guillford Long May y° 27 1753,” 
see oodwiyat. os Sl Heame July ye l 1767... In 
addition to many other names are several picture car- 
vings, and notably one of a man suspended from a 
gallows, over which is the inscription, “John Kelley 
from the Isle of Wight.” According to local tradition 
Mr. Kelley is said to have been hanged for the theft of 
a salt goose. 
As yet during our stay at Churchill we had not been 
successful in reaching the ruins of old Fort Prince of 
Wales, but on the 3rd of November, the weather being 
cold and good for snowshoeing, we started off, and after 
an enjoyable five-mile tramp reached the memorable 
spot, now a scene of utter desolation. Nota tree or 
other sign of life could be seen on the long, low snow- 
driven point of rock, but there in all its solitary, mas- 
sive grandeur stood the remains of what had more than 
one hundred years ago been a noble fortress. 
The construction of this fortification—which appears 
to have been planned by the English engineer, Joseph 
Robson—was commenced in the year 1743 by the Hud- 
son’s Bay Company, which was then, as now, carrying 
on fur-trading business in northern Canada. So large 
and expensive a fortification was built probably not so 
much for the protection of the Company’s interests as 
for the purpose of complying with a provision of its 
