se masses of ice had been thrown in
every direction. Several blocks, eight or nine feet in thickness, and
many yards in diameter, were lying on the level solid floe; yet we were
for some time at a loss to discover whence they had been ejected, till
at length we found a hole or pool, which appeared so small as to be
hardly capable of containing the immense fragments near it; yet from
this place alone must they have been thrown."

Captain Lyon subsequently added, that "the water, which was found to be
quite fresh, was running rapidly to seaward in this opening; and it
seemed probable that the vast accumulation from the streams at the head
of the creek, although at about ten miles distance, had burst a passage,
and thus ejected the ice. The force employed for this purpose may be
conceived, when I mention that, of several masses of ice, one in
particular was above eight feet thick, full forty yards in
circumference, and lay more than five hundred yards from the pool. No
traces could be found of the manner in which these bodies had been
transported, as not a single small fragment was seen lying about, to
warrant the supposition that they had fallen with a shock. Neither were
there any marks observable on the smooth uncracked floe to cause a
suspicion that they had slidden over it, the general appearance of the
floe at this place being the same as at all other parts of the inlet,
and bearing no marks of having had any rush of water over it."

The weather was now, at times, extremely sultry, bringing out swarms of
moschetoes, that soon became very troublesome, even on board the ships.
A thermometer suspended in the middle of the observatory, and exposed to
the sun's rays, was observed by Mr. Fisher to stand at 92 deg. at five P.M.
on the 18th.

On the 19th Captain Lyon returned from Quilliam Creek, bringing with him
the whole of our party stationed there, the ice being now so broken up
in that neighbourhood as to render the fishing dangerous without proper
boats. On this journey, which it took two days to perform, eleven dogs
drew a weight of two thousand and fifty pounds, of which six hundred and
forty were salmon, and ninety-five venison, procured by our people. The
fish had all been caught in the trawl; and treble the quantity might
easily have been taken with a seine, had we known how wide the mouth of
the stream was to become. They varied in length from twenty to twenty
six inches, and one of the largest, when cleaned,