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the entrance of Detention Harbour, at nine 

 P.M., having come twenty- eight miles, 

 An old Esquimaux encampment was traced 

 on this spot; and an ice chisel, a copper 

 knife, and a small iron knife were found 

 under the turf. I named this cape after 

 Mr. Barrow of the Admiralty, to whose 

 exertions are mainly owing the discoveries 

 recently made in Arctic geography. An 

 opening on its eastern side received the ap- 

 pellation of Inman Harbour, after my friend 

 the Professor at the Royal Naval College, 

 Portsmouth; and to a group of islands to 

 seaward of it, we gave the name of Jameson, 

 in honour of the distinguished Professor of 

 Mineralogy at Edinburgh. 



We had much wind and rain during the 

 night ; and by the morning of the 26th a 

 great deal of ice had drifted into the inlet. 

 We embarked at four, and attempted to 

 force a passage, when the first canoe got 

 enclosed, and remained for some time in a 

 very perilous situation, the pieces of ice, 

 crowded together by the action of the cur- 

 rent and wind, pressing strongly against its 



