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shown with long snow banks and sharp rocky declivities down which tore blasts of wind in furious gusts throwing up spray in clouds from the top of the waves and making what are termed "wooly" which made the ship surge at her anchor and rushed through her rigging with a loud humming noise after we came to anchor under the cliff close to the village under the SE [[strikethrough]] pou [[/strikethrough]] point which rises to a height of 2500 ft & is formed of a loose and disintegrating gray granite covering the slope with a deep layer of angular blocks like the hillsides at Plover Bay. The wind flew so hard all day that we did nothing but lay at anchor and not a single native dared come on board. As we came around the point we saw a small cascade formed on a small canyon near the waters edge which the wind kept in a mass of spray often lifting the water up and tossing it in every direction. The dark frowning cliffs around whose stern faces wheeled and turned flocks of Kittiwakes (Kotybue) Murres and Auks with a line of small cakes of ice trailing slowly past the point by tide & wind and the heavy snow banks everywhere on shore made a fitting scene for this guardian to the Entrance Of the Arctic 

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