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1861 Oct 17 Thurs

through one of the most excellent of glasses up & down the Strait no open water met my view.  I then turned to Kin-gaite.  The miles on miles of [[underlined]] mountains [[/underlined]] there were before me.  How majestic they always appear.  A long line of Black Cloud was stretched from the extreme at the S. to the extreme at the N.W. just enveloping the tops of most of the mountains of Kingaite.  I was disappointed in not getting a sight of Oo-pung-ne-wing & Ni-oun-te-lik.  Could I have raised myself up 20 feet I believe they would have been in view.  The ridge of another mountain (distant 2 miles) ran in such a direction that hid these places - but a small Island near Oo-pung-ne-wing was in sight.  This Island is called by the Innuits Ku-nuk-ju-a & bearing S. 43° W. (true).  The termination of the grass plain, Kussegeerarkjua, opposite & near Ni-oun-te-like, was within view.  The little Bay on F. Bay side making up to within [[underlined]] 1 mile [[/underlined]] (as I found) of Rescue Bay, measuring the shortest distance was nearly down beneath us.  Distant to the termination 

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1861 Oct 17th Ths

of the little Bay Frobisher Bay side from where I stood about 1/2 mile.
In climbing this mountain my clothing became saturated with perspiration.  On making the top, the wind was blowing cuttingly cold, thus serving to cool me off too hastily for comfort or for endurance long.  Before I got through with the few observations I made up there, I came near freezing my fingers.  The time was long after leaving that exposed place before I could bring them back to their natural warmpth.  The stinging pains that I endured in those fingers during the restoration seemed almost unendurable.
[[strikethrough]] From spending up here [[/strikethrough]]  The Bay where I found the 3d deposite of Coal (of Frobisher in 1578) was but a little distance below.  I could see some portion of the Cliffs that were beside it.  This Coal cannot be more than 10 miles distant direct from the Ship.
Three fourths of an hour was spent on this mountain top.  Had it not been for the long time spent in getting to it & the lateness of the day I should have proceeded on 2 miles farther.