GO ESQUIMAUX HUTS. 
ESQUIMAUX HUT. 
have impressed men whose thoughts were not other¬ 
wise absorbed. An opening through the cliffs of trap 
rock disclosed a valley slope and distant rolling hills,— 
in fine contrast with the black precipices in front,— 
and a stream that came tumbling through the gorge: 
we could hear its pastoral music even on board the 
brig, when the ice clamor intermitted. 
The water around was so shoal that at three hun¬ 
dred yards from the shore we had but twelve-feet 
soundings at low tide. Great rocks, well worn and 
rounded, that must have been floated out by the ice at 
some former period, rose above the water at a half 
mile’s distance, and the inner drift had fastened itself 
about them in fantastic shapes. The bergs, too, were 
aground well out to seaward; and the cape ahead was 
completely packed with the ice which they hemmed 
