Dr. Richardson discovered near the beach a small vein of galena traversing gneiss rocks, and the people collected a quantity of it in the hope of adding to our stock of balls, but their endeavours to smelt it were as may be supposed ineffectual.  The drift timber on this part of the coast consists of pine and taccamahac (Populus balsamifera) most probably from Mackenzie’s or some other river to the westward of the Copper-Mine.  It all appears to have lain long in the water, the bark being completely worn off and the ends of the pieces rubbed perfectly smooth.  There had been a sharp frost in the night which formed a pretty thick crust of ice in a kettle of water that stood in the tents, and for several nights thin films of ice had appeared on the salt water amongst the cakes of stream ice.* Notwithstanding this state of temperature we were tormented by swarms of mosquitoes; we had persuaded ourselves that these pests could not sustain the cold in the vicinity of the sea but it appears they haunt every part of this country in defiance of climate.  Mr. Back made an excursion to a hill at seven or eight miles distance and from its summit he perceived the ice close to the shore as far as his view extended.

(Footnote.  This is termed bay-ice by the Greenland men.)

On the morning of the 29th the party attended divine service.  About noon, the ice appearing less compact, we embarked to change our situation, having consumed all the fuel within our reach.  The wind came off the land just as the canoes had started and we determined on attempting to force a passage along the shore, in which we happily succeeded after seven hours’ labour and much hazard to our frail vessels.  The ice lay so close that the crews disembarked on it and effected a passage by bearing against the pieces with their poles, but in conducting the canoes through the narrow channels thus formed the greatest care was requisite to prevent the sharp projecting points from breaking the bark.  They fortunately received no material injury though they were split in two places.

At the distance of three miles we came to the entrance of a deep bay whose bottom was filled by a body of ice so compact as to preclude the idea of a passage through it, whilst at the same time the traverse across its mouth was attended with much danger from the approach of a large field of ice which was driving down before the wind.  The dread of further detention however prevented us from hesitating, and we had the satisfaction of landing in an hour and a half on the opposite shore, where we halted to repair the canoes and to dine.  I have named this bay after my friend Mr. Daniel Moore of Lincoln’s Inn, to whose zeal for science the Expedition was indebted for the use of a most valuable chronometer.  Its shores are picturesque, sloping hills receding from the beach and closed with verdure bound its bottom and western side, and lofty cliffs of slate clay with their intervening grassy valleys