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nodules to have been brought from England by Frobisher, who, it is well known, 

 took out large supplies and many miners, expecting to mine and smelt ores. Some 

 < blooms' of iron which Mr. Hall found may have been the result of their operations 

 with the magnetic iron. — Eds.] 



u * * * Thi s theory is supported by the tradition of the natives, who say that 

 the coal was brought there by foreigners,* as well as by the entire absence of any in- 

 dications of geological strata so high up in the series as the Carboniferous formation. 

 The siliceous pebbles seem to have served as gravel for the mortar used in building 

 the houses for carrying on the various objects for which the expedition was sent out. 

 No trace of any mineral containing silver existed in the collections. The sands sup- 

 posed by Mr. Hall to be those in which Frobisher found gold have not yet been as- 

 sayed. A small bead detached from an ornament worn by the natives was found to 

 be lead. Thos. Egleston." 



XI. 



Arctic Sledge. — Page 481. 



The sledge which I had made in Cincinnati, and took with me on my expedition 

 to the North, was made after the sledge "Faith," the favorite sledge of Dr. Kane on 

 his last expedition. The only difference between his and my sledge was as follows : 

 Dr. Kane's was 3 feet 8 inches wide, while mine was only 2 feet 6 inches. The shoe- 

 ing of Dr. Kane's was three-sixteenths-inch steel, while the shoeing of mine, on ar- 

 riving at the North, was slabs of the jawbone of the whale (the article used by the 

 natives), 1 inch thick and 3^ inches wide. 



The dimensions of the "Faith" (of Dr. Kane's) were as follows: 



ft. in. 



Length of runner 13 0 



Height of do 0 8 



Horizontal width of rail 0 2£ 



" " base of runner 0 3£ 



41 " other parts , 0 2 



Thickness of all parts 0 1£ 



Length, resting on a plain surface — 6 0 



Cross-bars, five in number, making a width of 3 8 



* Every thing that seems to them peculiar they refer to this source. 



THE END. 



