SILLIMAN'S FOSSIL MOUNT. 



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is covered several feet in depth with the washed-down debris of 

 fossils. I picked up several specimens, and have them with me. 

 The top of Silliman's Fossil Mount is covered with boulders and 

 grass. Even when close to the small mount it looks like sand, 

 but on examination it is fine broken limestone and fossils. 



u Having spent two hours on and around this interesting mount, 

 I made my way over the plain of grass between said mount and 

 the river, and cried to those at the fifteenth encampment. Soon 

 Koodloo, with two of the lady portion of the crew, put out after 

 me. I had my arms and pockets full of specimens, and a hard, 

 weak, weary time did I have of it. 



" I had thought to cut in stone, somewhere near the fifteenth 

 encampment, my name, or something to indicate my visit here (to 

 the head of the Bay of Frobisher), but I had not the tools to do it 

 with. This thought occurred to me on the idea that some of civ- 

 ilization who may yet make a voyage here might have this proof 

 that I had preceded him or them. 



" But the description of the river, the falls, the fossil mount, the 

 miles of exposed bottom at low tide, will answer as well. What 

 better proof do I want ? 



u When we got back to the encampment the tide had begun to 

 fall. This indicated that, if we would get away to-day, we must 

 make haste. The tuples I found all struck, and every thing ready 

 for departure. I ma'de the observations which commence this 

 day's record, and then we were ready for our homeward voyage 

 by way of Kingaite side. What deep regrets thus to depart from 

 this interesting land that I have denominated Greenwood's Land I" 



