. Récit d'un voyage vers les rivages de la mer polaire, dans les années 1819, 20, 21 et 22 [microform]. Expéditions scientifiques, Expéditions scientifiques. Du POLAR SEA. 375 et inégaux, mais ils sont coupés par des vallées, maintenant vert ; le long de leur base est une plage de sable fin. Point de Wollaston à notre campement actuel de la côte est entourée de falaises avec piège, qui ont souvent une forme cylindrique, et sont très difficiles d'accès. Ces falaises se trouvent dans les gammes parallèles à la rive, et le cerf que nous avons tué se nourrissent dans les petits plats d'herbe marécageuse qui se trouvent dans les vallées entre elles. Régulièrement l'

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. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. OF THE POLAR SEA. 375 and uneven, but they are intersected by valleys, now green; along their base is a fine sandy beach. From Point Wollaston to our present encampment the coast is skirted with trap cliffs, which have often a columnar form, and are very difficult of access. These cliffs lie in ranges parallel to the shore, and the deer that we killed were feeding in small marshy grassy plats that lie in the valleys between them. Being detained by the continuance of the gale, on the 2d of August some men were sent out to hunt, and the officers visited the tops of the highest hills, to ascertain the best channels to be pur- sued. The wind abating at ten P.M., we embarked and paddled round the southern end of the island, and continued our course to the south-east. Much doubt at this time prevailed as to the land on the right being the main shore, or merely a chain of islands. The latter opinion was strengthened by the broken appearance of tlie land, and the extensive view we had up Brown's Channel, (named after my friend Mr. Kobert Brown, ) the mouth of which we passed, and were in some apprehension of being led away from the main shore ; and, perhaps, after passing through a group of islands, 3f coming to a traverse greater than we durst venture upon in canoes. On the other hand, the continuous appearance of the land on the north side of the channel, and its tending to the southward, produced a fear that we were entering a deep inlet. In this state of doubt we landed often, and endeavoured, from the summits of the highest hills adjoining the shore, to ascertain the true nature of the coast, but in vain, and we continued pad- dling through the channel all night against a fresh breeze, which, at half past four, increased to a violent gale, and compelled us to land. The gale diminished a short time after noon on the 3

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