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She pointed to where Miner was. I knew this to be but a trick 

 to. get me back. I felt that I could manage women at least, and 

 cried out A-chootl — pull ahead — returning a decided negative to 

 their prayers to go back. With some difficulty I brought them 

 to their working senses. 



Finally we reached the estuary of a river — Jordan's Elver,* as 

 I have named it — and, after crossing it, landed on its eastern side. 

 We were then obliged to wade quite a distance to the shore prop- 

 er through mud that was nearly knee deep. On a small grass- 

 plat of Hazard's Banksf we made our fifteenth encampment. 



Leaving the Innuits to unload the boat, I started off on a tramp 

 of discovery, and continued my course up the river, which .at first 

 ran in a northwest direction, and then, for a short distance, more 

 northerly. As I walked along, charmed with the prospect before 

 me, I came across a skull, which I took up for the purpose of as- 

 certaining from the Innuits to what animal it belonged. I after- 

 ward found that it was that of a white whale. I saw around me, 

 as I advanced, that vegetation was abundant, and signs of animal 

 life were very numerous. As I rounded a rocky eminence by the 

 river side, at a distance of a mile from where I had left the boat, 

 a beautiful cascade, at the head of tide-water, was before me, and 

 at its base a little sheet of water nearly covered with Brent geese. 



From this point an extensive and picturesque scene burst upon 

 my view. Before me were long and wide plains, meadows of 

 grass, smoothly-sloping hills, and a range of mountains beyond, 

 which, parting in one particular spot, formed, as it were, a natural 

 gateway, that might almost lead, in fancy, to some fairy land be- 

 yOnd. At my left, across the river, was a ridge of white, which I 

 afterward named Silliman's Fossil Mount,;}: and behind it the un- 

 broken front of a line of mountains extending northwesterly to 

 the opening which I have called the Great Gateway. On the oth- 

 er, or northern side, the mountins continued from this singular 

 opening on by Frobisher Bay to the locality around Field Bay, 

 far to the southwest and eastward. Flocks of little chirping birds 

 greeted me at every turn, and nowyers and ducks were in num- 



* Named after Daniel B. Jordan, of Cincinnati, Ohio. 



f The land on the east side of the estuary of Jordan's River I have named after 

 Charles S. Hazard, of New York City. Hazard's Banks are in lat. 63° 46' N., long. 

 68° 52' W. 



X Thus named after Benjamin Silliman, Jr., of New Haven, Conn. This fossil 

 mount is on the west side of the termination of Frobisher Bay. It is in lat. 63° 44', 

 long. 68° 56'. 



