DEPRESSION OF THE COAST. 
noticed before sucli unmistakable evidence of the de¬ 
pression of this coast: its converse elevation I had 
observed to the north of Wostenholme Sound. The 
axis of oscillation must be somewhere in the neighbor¬ 
hood of latitude 77°. 
We reached Cape York on the 21st, after a tortuous 
but romantic travel through a- misty atmosphere. 
Here the land-leads ceased, with the exception of some 
small and scarcely-practicable openings near the shore, 
which were evidently owing to the wind that prevailed 
for the time. Every thing bore proof of the late de¬ 
velopment of the season. The red snow was a fortnight 
behind its time. A fast floe extended with numerous 
tongues far out to the south and east. The only ques¬ 
tion was between a new rest, for the shore-ices to open, 
or a desertion of the coast and a trial of the open water 
to the west. 
We sent off a detachment to see whether the Esqui¬ 
maux might not be passing the summer at Episok, 
behind the glacier of Cape Imalik, and began an in¬ 
ventory of our stock on hand. I give the result:— 
Dried lumme.... 
Pork-slush. 
Flour. 
Indian meal. 
Meat-biscuit 
Bread. 
195 birds. 
112 pounds. 
50 “ 
50 “ 
80 “ 
348 “ 
Six hundred and forty pounds of provision, all told, 
exclusive of our dried birds, or some thirty-six pounds 
