APPENDIX NO. Y. 
379 
I cannot imagine what becomes of the ice. A strong current sets 
it almost constantly to the south; but, from altitudes of more than five 
hundred feet, I saw only narrow strips of ice, with great spaces of open 
water, from ten to fifteen miles in breadth, between them. It must 
therefore either go to an open space in the north, or dissolve. The 
tides in-shore seemed to make both north and south; but the tide from 
northward ran seven hours, and there was no slack-water. The wind 
blew heavily down the channel from the open water, and had been 
freshening since yesterday nearly to a gale ; but it brought no ice 
with it. 
To-day we again reached the entering cape of the channel, and 
camped at the place where we deposited half of our provisions on our 
journey to the north. I here found the thermometer which I had lost 
on the 21st. The water, five feet deep, taken from a rock, gave +40°, 
the tide setting from northward. The air in the shade was -f-34°. 
June 27.—We started at 2 p.M. and travelled four hours; but the 
snow was so soft, in consequence of the warm sun, that we made slow 
progress. Wo camped at 6 p.M., intending to commence our night¬ 
travelling again. 
June 28.— Wo started at 2 A.M., and travelled along the land, in 
order to discover more accurately where the glacier joins it. About 
thirty miles from the entrance of the channel it overlaps the land, 
which here becomes gradually lower. This land is of low round knobs, 
about eight hundred feet high. 
Two large cracks running east and west caused us some delay. We 
had to go a great distance to the west near one of them, until we found 
a loose piece in it large enough to ferry ourselves and the sledge over. 
A great number of seals were around the cracks. We halted at 9.45 
a.m., opposite the place where the land and glacier unite. 
June 29. —We started at 0.40 a.m., and went to the south between 
the icebergs. Wo were detained by two cracks which we met with 
to-day. We saw the west shore to the south-of-west from us, which, 
as far as the eye could reach, did not appear to alter its trend. 
June 30.— We started at 1.40 a.m., and soon got clear of the ice¬ 
bergs. We found better travelling-ice; but the snow was soft, and 
melting very fast. In a few days more it will be impossible to travel 
here. 
This morning we sighted Cache Island, and shaped our course for 
Sunny Gorge. I saw the western shore to-day, and think it was about 
sixty miles distant. 
July 1.—We started at 2.30 A.M. The travelling to-day was very 
