country itself, the grasses and sedges, and a variety of Arctic plants which grow around the ponds and lakes, and in sheltered places among the hills, give the landscape a pleasantly green appearance in many places. No shrubs are to be seen except the creeping willows, but the Eskimo make mats for the floors of their summer tents by fastening together, in regular order, twigs of dwarf birch, (_Betula glandulosa_, Michx.) about three feet long, which we understood they obtained in the interior. The natives on this part of the coast live by hunting the reindeer among the hills, and the white whale, polar bear, walrus and seals on the coast. At certain seasons they also procure a good supply of waterfowl and brook trout. [Sidenote: Large quartz and felspar vein.] Close to the shore, behind an island, and about a mile south of the old Eskimo camps, above referred to, a very conspicuous vein is exposed along the face of a bluff of gneiss. It is about thirty feet wide in one part, and consists of white quartz next the walls, with coarsely crystalline red felspar in the centre. A few plates of darkly-coloured, uneven mica were also observed. [Sidenote: Elevated plateau.] The general outline of the land on this part of the coast, as seen from a distance out at sea to the westward, slopes gradually up to the westward, until the brink of the great precipices of Cape Wolstenholme are reached. The elevated plateau above the precipices has a tolerably even appearance, as if it had been smoothly and uniformly glaciated. The high and almost perpendicular precipices of Cape Wolstenholme and the east end of the Inner Digges Island, which faces each other, present a singular contrast to the planed surface of the Outer Digges, and the apparently glaciated plateau of the mainland above the cape. It is possible that part of the ancient glacier, in passing out of the bed of Hudson’s Bay, became jammed against the inside of the high angular barrier formed by the Digges Islands, on the one hand and the mainland on the other. The narrow channel which separates the Inner Digges from Cape Wolstenholme must be very deep, if we may judge from the quantity of water which flows through it with every tide, producing a strong current in the sea to the south of the Digges Islands. [Sidenote: The Ottawa Islands.]