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On February 5 the west shore was followed north to the northwest 
corner of the lake. The shoreline is very regular without prominent points 
or embayments. The land along the lake is low, few of the ridges exceed 
30 feet in height, but some distance north there appear inland bluffs and 
high land rising perhaps 100 to 200 feet and continuing to the northwest. 
At the northwest corner of the lake Precambrian granitic rocks outcrop. 
Similar rocks occur along the north shore and were observed, in the summer 
of 1925, along the south shore as far west as the mouth of Amadjuak river. 
No rock outcrops were seen along the west shore either in 1925 or 1926. 
According to the Eskimo, it is possible to cross in a day from the 
head of the lake to Foxe basin, the intervening distance being much shorter 
than farther south. 
On February 6 the traverse of the north shore commenced. A general 
southwesterly course was followed. The shoreline is indented by many 
bays and fringed with numerous low islands. The country inland in a 
short distance rises rather abruptly to an uneven tableland averaging 
about 200 feet in height. 
On February 7 the general course followed was a little west of south. 
The land to the east continued to be low. The shoreline is indented by 
deep, crooked bays, and islands are numerous. 
Early on the morning of February 8 the trail made when travelling 
west was struck. It was followed west to the cache at the east head of 
the lake. On February 9, the head of Nettilling fiord was reached. The 
following few days were partly spent hunting seals for dog food and in 
descending Nettilling fiord as far as the entrance to Kangertlukjuak fiord 
which was reached at midday February 13. The head of the fiord was 
reached in mid-afternoon and a short valley at its head was followed to a 
lake-like body, one-quarter mile long, into which the sea flows at spring 
tides. A stream course entering the northern end was followed to a lake 
a mile long and lying at an elevation of 30 feet above sea-level. From this 
lake the route passes northward from the middle of the lake, up the slopes 
of a ridge 400 feet high and down its northern slope to a valley into which 
a river enters from the west through a canyon. Camp was made some 
distance down the valley. The surrounding hills do not rise more than 
400 or 500 feet. 
On February 14 the river course was followed downward. In a short 
distance it expands into a lake 2 miles long and a mile beyond empties 
into Tornait bay. The Eskimo encampment at Bon Accord was reached 
in the afternoon. On February 15 the trip was ended at Pangnirtung 
post. 
On March 5 a third journey to Nettilling lake was commenced. The 
objectives were to recover the collections made during the summer of 
1925, but left there in a cache; to bring out to Nettilling fiord the surf 
boat; and to establish a cache of supplies for further work. The party, 
in addition to the writer, consisted of four Eskimo and was provided with 
three sledges and dog teams. On March 19, after being stormbound for 
several days and spending parts of days securing seals for dog food, the 
head of Nettilling fiord was passed and Amittok lake reached where the 
surf boat had been hauled out the previous year. On March 21, the trip 
was continued to Nettilling lake. On this day the morning temperature 
was 10 degrees below zero, at noon the temperature rose to 4 degrees above 
zero and rocks with southern exposures became glazed with ice. 
