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further influx, arising from an accidental cause* 
but also to occasion a reflux of the portion of 
Water thus urged above its level. Now, it was 
observed during our stay in the neighbourhood of 
Davy’s Sound, that there was such a decided and 
constant inset as we have just supposed. As 
this inset was not returned by Mountnorris Inlet, 
nor by any other opening immediately to the 
southward of Davy’s Sound, it is evident, that 
the influx of water must have been carried off by 
some interior channel connected with the ocean, 
The certainty of this inset rests upon tire follow¬ 
ing facts. 
When we first approached the land opposite to 
Traill Island, we had a clear communication with 
the shore. The ice previously floating at a dis¬ 
tance to the eastward, however, soon began to set 
in, not by the influence of the wind, because the 
wind blew directly along shore (or rather of!' 
shore as otherwise), until a body of ice had accu¬ 
mulated many leagues in width. The navigation 
was clear to the very beach at Cape Moorsom, on 
the 12th of August ; but on the 15th, the quan¬ 
tity of ice that had set in, prevented us getting 
within fourteen miles of Traill Island; and on 
the 20th, in the opening of Davy’s Sound, we 
were forced off to the distance of twenty miles 
from the land. 
