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the lowest mean July temperature of the American half of 

 of the Arctic regions, being all below 40° : — 



o ' o 



Winter Islands . . . (latitude 66 11) . . 35-4 



PortBowen . . . . ( " 73 14) . . 36'6 



Assistance Harbour . ( " 74 40) . . 37*8 



Igloolik .....(" 69 21) . . 39-1 



Observations made on board of vessels navigating Baffin 

 Bay and Hudson Strait give the following additional re- 

 results:* — 





Mean 



Latitude. 



o / 



Mean 

 Longitude. 



O t 



Mean 

 Temperature 



of July. 



o 



Baffin Bay . . 



70 







59 







33-5 



Baffin Bay 



70 







58 







34-8 



Baffin Bay 



75 



5 



59 



4 



34-9 



Hudson Strait 



63 







77 







35-3 



An elliptical curve drawn round the foregoing points, having 

 as its axis a line extending from the entrance to Hudson 

 Strait to Assistance Bay, and including Davis Strait, Baffin 

 Bay, Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, Prince Regent Inlet, 

 Boothia Gulf, Fox Channel, with the land between, com- 

 prises the coldest regions on the American side. This 

 region is precisely that in which the fewest numbers of ani- 

 mals have been met with. Beyond it, even to the N., where 

 the July temperature — as in Melville Island — has been 

 found to increase, there the animals also have been found 

 in greater numbers. Dr Sutherland, in his valuable work 

 already quoted, gives some interesting remarks on this 

 head. He says,t " That deer are more abundant on the N. 

 side of Cornwallis Island, adjacent to Barrow Strait, no 

 person need doubt ; for Captain Penny's and MivGoodsir's 

 travelling reports contain frequent allusions to the'numbe s 



* As given by Dr Sutherland in his " Journal of a Voyage to Baffin Bay 

 and Barrow Strait." See Appendix, p. clxxvi. 



t " Journal of a Voyage t3 Baffin Bay and Barrow Strait," Introduction, 

 p. xxxii. 



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