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used for the cross-bars, applied wet; the wood was hickory and oak, not the 
Canada elm used by the Lancaster Sound parties. 
A sledge thus constructed, with a canvas cover on which to place and confine 
the cargo, would readily load, according to the state of the travel, from one 
hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds per man. The “Faith” has carried 
sixteen hundred pounds. 
Note 27, p. 113. 
These boats were not well adapted to their purpose, their bulk being too 
great for portability. The casing of basket-willow I regard as better than a 
wooden frame or distension by simple inflation with air. No sledge, however, 
should be without tho India-rubber floats or portable boat of Lieutenant 
Halkett. 
Note 28, p. 114. 
This is quoted from tho original report of the party. There are no syenites 
upon this plain: tho rocks are entirely destitute of hornblende. They are of 
the same bottom-series as the fiords about our harbor, highly feldspathic and 
sometimes porphyritic granites passing into coarso gneisses. 
Note 29, p. 117. 
One end of tho cord represented a fixed point, by being anchored to tho 
bottom; the free end, with an attached height, roso and fell with the brig, and 
recorded its motion on tho grooved circumference of a wheel. This method was 
liable to objections; but it was corrected by daily Boundings. Tho movements 
of our vessel partook of those of the floe in which she was imbedded, and wero 
unaccompanied by any lateral deviation. 
Note 30, p. 118. 
For methods of observation, see Appendix No. XI. Vol. II. 
Note 31, p. 122. 
The almost incomprehensible use of these small kennels as dormitories was 
afterward satisfactorily ascertained from the Esquimaux themselves. They are 
spoken of as far south as Karsuk, (near Upernavik,) and are at this moment 
resorted to in case of arrivals of hunting-parties, &c. Unlike tho Siberian 
pologs, they aro not enclosed by a second chamber. The hardy tenant, muffled 
in furs, at a temperature of — GO 0 is dependent for warmth upon his own 
powers and the slow conduction of the thick walls. 
