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mcr residences. Great quantities of bones (among 
which skulls of bears, uarwals, rein-deer, and other 
animals were recognised), were scattered about 
this plain. It was observable, that all the bears’ 
heads wanted the lower jaw; while the upper jaw, 
in many, retained all the teeth, and was quite per¬ 
fect. 
As the ship was stationary, and it was not con¬ 
venient to remove, for getting intersecting bear¬ 
ings of the coast, to carry on my survey, I was 
obliged to take a series of observations on shore. 
The station I selected was Cape Moorsom, from 
whence the distance of the Baffin was found, by 
the angle which her mast subtended, to be 14,514 
feet, or 2 miles, 2434 feet. With this distance, 
as a base, and intersecting bearings taken at the 
extremities, the form and position of the contigu¬ 
ous head-lands were determined. The angle sub¬ 
tended by Vandyke Cliffs, at the ship, was 4° 36', 
which gave the height 1292 feet. 
The heavy fall of rain with which we had been 
constantly visited for thirty hours, previous to our 
landing on Traill Island, was only suspended for 
a few hours. It recommenced at 10 p. m., and 
drew a veil over the land, before my observations 
were quite completed. 
Sunday, 11 tli August .—The land-floe to 
which the three ships were moored, being held by 
