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CHAPTER X. 
AGAIN APPROACH T1IE COAST.-ISLANDS AND INLETS 
DISCOVERED AND NAMED.-LAND UTON TRAILL 
ISLAND. -RELICS OF NATIVES MET WITH.-NARROW 
ESCAPE OF THE SHIP FROM A DANGEROUS SITUA¬ 
TION.-STRONG TIDES IN THE OPENING OF DAVY’S 
SOUND.-RESEARCHES MADE BY TWO PARTIES OF MEN 
SENT ON SHORE.-SURVEY OF THE COAST CONTINU¬ 
ED.-DESCRIPTION OF ANTIIELIA AND CORONA:. 
JliARLY in the morning of Saturday the 10th of 
August, blowing fresh at NE., we cast loose from 
the ice, and renewed our exploration towards the 
NW-, for the purpose of getting in-shore. The 
weather being cither hazy, with rain, or thick with 
fog, we experienced considerable difficulties in at¬ 
taining our object; but having taken advantage 
of the more lucid intervals, between the showers, 
for penetrating the different chains of floes that 
thwarted our course, we made very rapid progress 
towards the coast. At 2 p. m. we descried land; 
and soon afterwards, the weather having cleared 
up near the shore, we discovered an opening ex¬ 
tending to the very beach. We pursued this 
“ lead” until we came into 13 fathoms water, at the 
