SEALS AT PLAT. 
CHAPTER XLL 
" The storm broke in the early morning hours. We 
have drifted more than sixteen miles since Saturday. 
The true hearing of the prominent cape we supposed 
to he Cape Walsingham was found hy solar distance 
to he S. C3° W. ; while our observed position, by me- 
ridian altitude and chronometers, placed us but four 
miles north of Exeter Bay. Eitlier, then, the protrud- 
ing cape is not Walsingham, or our chronometers are 
at fault. This latter is probably the case ; for if the 
coast line be correctly laid down on the charts, the 
true bearing cited above, projected from one present 
parallel of latitude, would place us thirty-six miles 
from the cape. More likely this than so near Exeter. 
"Our latitude is about 66° 5V, a very few miles 
north of the projecting headland, the western Gades 
of our strait. The character of the land is rugged 
and inhospitable. Ridges, offsetting from the higher 
range, project in spurs laterally, creviced and water- 
worn, but to seaward escarped and bluff. Some of 
thes,e are mural and precipitous, of commanding height. 
The main range does not retire very far from the sea ; 
it seems to follow the trend of the peninsula, and most 
probably on the Greenland shore is but the abutment 
of a plateau. Its culminating points are not numer- 
ous : the highest, Mount Raleigh, is, by my vague es- 
timate, about fifteen hundred feet high. 
