6o JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

July. — took an obfervation which gave 69. 1. North latitude. From the point
4 that has been juft mentioned, we continued the fame courfe for the
Welternmoft point of an high ifland, and the Wefternmoft land in —_

at the diftance of fifteen miles.

‘ The lake was quite open to us to the Weftward, and out of the channel
of the river there was not more than four feet water, and in fome places
the depth did not exceed one foot. From the fhallownefs of the
water it was impoffible to coaft to the Weftward. At five o'clock
we arrived at the ifland, and during the laft fifteen miles, five feet was
the deepeft water. The lake now appeared to be covered with ice, for
about two leagues diftance, and no land ahead, fo that we were prevented
from proceeding in this dire€tion by the ice, and the fhallownels of the
water along the fhore.

We landed at the boundary of our voyage in this direGion, and as
foon as the tents were pitched I ordered the nets to be fet, when I pro-
ceeded with the Englifh chief to the higheft part of the ifland, from
which we difcovered the folid ice, extending from the South-Wef by
compafs to the Eaftward. As far as the eye could reach to the South-
Weitward, we could dimly perceive a chain of mountains, ftretching
further to the North than the edge of the ice, at the diftance of upwards
of twenty leagues. To the Eaftward we faw many iflands, and in our
progrels we met with a confiderable number of white partridges, now
become brown. There were alfo flocks of very beautiful plovers,
and I found the neft of one of them with four eggs. White owls,
hikewile, were among the inhabitants. of the place: but the dead, as

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