scoresby’s sound. 
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in any other part of the sound that we examined. 
Our boats grounded on a sand-bank, about 200 
yards from the beach, near Cape Stewart, and a 
considerable flat of sand skirts the shore opposite 
to Neill’s Cliffs. The river adjoining the hamlet 
carries out with it a quantity of sand, which it 
deposits in its confluence with the sea, and forms 
one of those banks above noticed, extending about 
200 yards offshore. In the middle of the sound 
there is very deep water. Due south of Cape 
Hope, and mid-way between Cape Brewster and 
Cape Tobin, there arc more than 000 fathoms ; 
and within a mile of the land we generally found 
150 or 200 fathoms water. To the SE. of Cape 
Stewart, however, in the direction of the sand¬ 
banks, the depth is less considerable, the sound¬ 
ings being 125 fathoms, about two miles from the 
shore. 
Calm weather is found greatly to prevail here 
at this season. In the height of summer, when 
the air is inclined to calm along the coast, a gen¬ 
tle or sometimes a fresh sea-breeze sets in about 
one or two o’clock in the afternoon. This at least 
was our experience whilst we remained in Scorcs- 
by’s Sound. In the mornings, the wind was ge¬ 
nerally from the west or north-west; and in the 
afternoon from the south-eastward. In Hurry’s 
Inlet, where the heat is very great, the sea-breeze 
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