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intended to revisit the coast on that side ; but still enough had 

 been done, with sufficient accuracy, for the civilized world to gain 

 a knowledge of the general situation of Frobisher Bay. At least, 

 the opinion that these waters are a strait ought not any longer to 

 be entertained. 



At 4 P.M., having made a distance of six miles from Peale's 

 Point on a course S. 40° W. true, we entered a channel, with 

 Kingaite on our right and Bishop's Island* at our left. The coast 

 on each side was steep, but in many places covered with grass 

 and the usual vegetation to be found here in the North. The en- 

 trance to this channel was about half a mile wide ; but, on mak- 

 ing a quarter of a mile, it brought us into a harbor that appeared 

 to be a fine one, not less than two and a half miles in diameter. 

 Thence we passed on a course nearly south to the west side of the 

 harbor, where we landed, and there made our thirteenth encamp- 

 mentf on Kingaite. 



LANDING FOE THE NIGHT'S ENCAMPMENT. 



* Thus named after R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The centre of this island, 

 which bounds the north and eastern side of the harbor of the thirteenth encamp- 

 ment, is in lat. 63° 37' N., long. 68° 35' W. 



f Our thirteenth encampment was in lat. 63° 36' N., long. 68° 43' W. 



