208 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



for the use of a most valuable chronometer. 

 Its shores are picturesque ; sloping hills 

 receding from the beach, and clothed with 

 verdure, bound its bottom and western side ; 

 and lofty cliffs of slate clay, with their inter- 

 vening grassy valleys, skirt its eastern bor- 

 der. Embarking at midnight, we pursued 

 our voyage without interruption, passing 

 between the Stockport and Marcet Islands 

 and the main, until six A.M. on July 30th, 

 when, having rounded Point Kater, we en- 

 tered Arctic Sound, and were again involved 

 in a stream of ice, but after considerable 

 delay extricated ourselves, and proceeded 

 towards the bottom of the inlet in search of 

 the mouth of a river, which we supposed it 

 to receive, from the change in the colour of 

 the water. 



About ten A.M. we landed, to breakfast 

 on a small deer which St. Germain had 

 killed; and sent men in pursuit of some 

 others in sight, but with which they did not 

 come up. Re-embarking, we passed the 

 river without perceiving it, and entered a 

 deep arm of the sound, which I have named 



