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ing bearings of the land in the interior of Davy’s 
Sound, an accurate survey could not be obtained; 
but all that could be expected from a careful and 
repeated examination of the coast, for estimating 
the distances, and discovering the indentations 
and promontories, was accomplished. Two head¬ 
lands, in Fleming Inlet, received the names of 
Cape Seaforth, and Cape Carnegie, in 
compliment to two much respected families of 
Edinburgh ; and some promontories in the north¬ 
ern branch of Hurry’s Inlet, were called after 
different friends, chiefly resident in the Scottish 
capital, whose names appear in the general chart. 
In the evening of this day, after an interval of 
about five hours of clear weather, the fog drew its 
bewildering skreeu over the prospect, and put a 
stop to my observations on the coast. But 
another exhibition, of a very interesting nature, 
fully compensated for the curtailing of my sur¬ 
veying operations, at this time, especially as I had 
other opportunities of completing them to my en¬ 
tire satisfaction. This exhibition consisted in a 
splendid display of five concentric coronas, or pris¬ 
matic circles, produced by the action of the sun 
on a low stratum of fog. These phenomena had 
often been observed in the preceding parts of the 
voyage ; but as this was by far the most interest- 
