164 MOUNDS. 
eter, and two feet eight inches high, which had evi- 
dently served for an anvil-block : the marks were un- 
mistakable. Near it again, but still more to the east, 
and therefore nearer the beach, was a large blackened 
space, covered with coal cinders, iron nails, spikes, 
hinges, rings, clearly the remains of the armorer's forge. 
Still nearer the beach, but more to the south, was the 
carpenter's shop, its marks equally distinctive. 
Leaving "the graves," and walking toward Wel- 
lington Straits, about four hundred yards, or perhaps 
less, we came to a mound, or rather a series of mounds, 
which, considering the Arctic character of the surface 
at this spot, must have been a work of labor. It in- 
closed one nearly elliptical area, and one other, which, 
though separated from the first by a lesser mound, 
appeared to be connected with it. The spaces thus 
inclosed abounded in fragmentary remains. Among 
them I saw a stocking without a foot, sewed up at its 
edge, and a mitten not so much the worse for use as 
to have been without value to its owner. Shavings 
of wood were strewed freely on the southern side of 
the mound, as if they had been collected there by the 
continued labor of artificers, and not far from these, a 
few hundred yards lower down, was the remnant of a 
garden. AVeighing all the signs carefully, I had no 
doubt that this was some central shore establishment, 
connected with the squadron, and that the lesser area 
was used as an observatory, for it had large stones 
fixed as if to support instruments, and the scantling 
props still stuck in the frozen soil. 
Travelling on about a quarter of a mile further, and 
in the same direction, we came upon a deposit of more 
than six hundred preserved-meat cans, arranged in 
regular order. They had been emptied, and were now 
