' ^ Captain Scoresby’s Journal of a Voyage to the 
physician and naturalist in Liverpool). A landing was effected 
iere? and very numerous relics of the natives were met with. 
On one flat of land, to the eastward of Cape Simpson, they obser- 
ved several dozens of old huts, and ground-plots of summer tents. 
A lamp, of the kind commonly used by the Esquimaux, was 
picked up by one of the Trafalgar’s sailors ; numerous pieces 
of the keels of sledges were collected, intimating not only that 
the inhabitants had once been very numerous there, but that 
they must have made great use of their sledges, to afford so 
many pieces of these half worn defences for the keels. There 
were remains and bones of rein T deer, dogs, narwals, seals, bears, 
about the old hamlets they visited, and these in very great 
abundance. The vessel was nearly lost in this quarter during 
a violent gale. The long and tedious gale which commenced 
bloAving NE., on the night of the 13th of August, and the 
lam which had fallen in an incessant and heavy shower, that 
lasted for sixty-two hours, at length abated. The quantity of 
rain that fell far exceeded any thing of the kind ever observed 
by Captain Scoresby. The boats were likely to be torn from 
the tackles, by the weight of the water that collected in them 
before it was observed, and after they were repeatedly emptied. 
T- he survey was continued along the coast, and various headlands, 
bays, and islands, noted and named. A distant tract of moun- 
tainous country was seen across the interior of Davy’s Inlet (so 
named in honour of Sir Humphry Davy) ; but it appeared to 
be insular. To the westward of this island, there is a chain of 
the most elevated mountains hitherto met with during this sur- 
vey. This chain, named Werner Mountains, from respect to the 
memory of the celebrated geologist, is distinctly seen at the dis- 
tance of between thirty and forty leagues, in the ordinary state 
of the atmosphere, and is so bold as to give to the mountainous 
coast before it the appearance of low hummocky land. Many 
very beautiful and interesting haloes made their appearance, 
and pages 273. to 284- are occupied with descriptions of these, 
and speculations on their mode of formation. During the six 
preceding weeks, the search for whales proved almost wholly 
unsuccessful. The land had already assumed its winter cover- 
ing of snow,— “the sea began to freeze in the evenings, and the 
gloom of the lengthening night marked the approach of winter, 
