. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. r r>L 266 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES %. i I'i. distance, interrupted occasionally by jutting points, over which in some places it was again visible. A small southerly channel, however, led to some islands, and for these we steer- ed, but soon became hampered with surrounding ice. The same mode of proceeding was therefore adopted as on the preceding day; and in four hours we were lu
. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. r r>L 266 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES %. i I'i. distance, interrupted occasionally by jutting points, over which in some places it was again visible. A small southerly channel, however, led to some islands, and for these we steer- ed, but soon became hampered with surrounding ice. The same mode of proceeding was therefore adopted as on the preceding day; and in four hours we were lucky enough to have advanced eight miles, tliough not in the direct line of our course. Some open water was then seen to the north; and though doubtful if the river would be in that quarter or more to the eastward, I stood over for it, as the inclination of a line of sand-hills rather favoured the former opinion. With a little difficulty we succeeded in reaching a lane, which ultimately led us to the main land, against whose rocky sides ti>e ice again abutted. A portage was immediately made, and the boat lifted over into the water. In ten minutes we were again stopped by ice, so thick that all our endeavours to cut a passage with the axes, and break it as had been hith- erto done, v/erc utterly in vain. Another place, which seemed to offer fewer obstacles, was tried with the same re- sult; we therefore landed and made a second portage across the rocks, which brought us to a sheet of water terminating in a rapid; and this, though seldom a pleasing object to those who have to go down it, was now joyfully hailed by us as the end of a lake which had occasioned us so much trouble and delay. In summer, however, or more properly speak- ing, autumn, tliis lake must be a splendid sheet of water; wherefore, regarding it apart from the vexations which it had caused me, I bestowed upon it the name of Lake Garry, after Nicholas Garry, Esq., of the Hudson's Bay Company, to whose disintere
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