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INSPECTING A HARBOR. 
“ Last night I sent out Messrs. Wilson, Petersen, and 
Bonsall, to inspect a harbor which seems to lie between 
a small island and a valley that forms the inner slope 
of our bay. They report recent traces of deer, and 
bring back the skull of a musk ox. 
“Hitherto this animal has never been seen east of 
Melville Island. But his being here does not surprise 
me. The migratory passages of the reindeer, who is 
even less Arctic in his range than the musk ox, led me 
to expect it. The fa~ u points to some probable land 
connection between Greenland and America, or an ap- 
