.8 Calm, ESE, light, clear } 147 deg. 38 min. and
28 43.0 SW, strong, clear } 136 deg. 19 min. W.
29 52.5 SSW, heavy gale _}
30 45.6 NW, Heavy gale, rain } Mackenzie
31 42.4 Calm, SW, gloomy } River.
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Mean 40.85
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Sept.
1 38.3 NW, gale, snow }
2 38.6 NW, strong, clear }
3 41.1 Calm, moderate, SE, clear }
4 41.3 SE, NW, moderate, clear }
5 45.9 SE, light, clear }
6 51.0 Variable, light, clear }
7 44.8 SE, light, NW, strong }
8 41.0 NW, strong, snow }
9 39.3 East, moderate, clear }
10 45.8 SE, light, clear } Mackenzie
11 45.8 NW, moderate rain } River.
12 37.3 NW, moderate, gloomy }
13 37.2 Calm, SE, light, clear }
14 37.9 ESE, moderate, clear }
15 42.7 Calm, moderate, fresh, gloomy }
16 44.5 Variable, light, gloomy }
17 36.9 Variable, moderate, rain }
18 29.4 NW, fresh, gloomy }
19 24.6 NW, moderate, gloomy }
20 29.2 ESE, fresh, clear }
21 31.1 ENE, fresh, clear Fort Franklin.
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Mean 39.22
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NOTE.--The thermometer used in this register, was compared with those
in use at Fort Franklin during ten days after our return, and found to
coincide with them.

FOOTNOTES:

[3] I have recently learned, by letter from Captain Beechey, that the
barge turned back on the 25th of August, having been several days beset
by the ice. He likewise informs me, that the summer of 1827 was so
unfavourable for the navigation of the northern coast of America, that
the Blossom did not reach so high a latitude as in the preceding year;
nor could his boat get so far to the east of Icy Cape, by one hundred
miles. The natives, he says, were numerous, and, in some instances,
ill-disposed.

DR. RICHARDSON'S NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE EASTERN DETACHMENT
OF THE EXPEDITION.

CHAPTER I.

Leave Point Separation and descend the Eastern Channel of the