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Show STBONO'S KKOB- CLOTH CAP. 195 of water, and ttifey ibcapable,* from* sea- sickness and fright, of' making any farther exertion for their'safety. Had they used ordi- . nary diligence in the mourning, they might easily have reached the inland before the Btorm commented, and saved themselves much suffering and their companions no less- anxiety. The loss of the ' skiff is severely felt-~- the nature of the shore being such that th$ large boat, when loaded, cannot, in many places, approach within two OF three miles of the land, and the lighter . vessel is therefore indispensable. . I/ was rejoiced that no lives were lost, wjuch there was, at one tinie, serious reason to apprehend. " We found that the bail had killed a large number of the young pelican*, as, upon the approach of the gust* they had been deserted by their parents, who had betaken themselveft to the protection of the neighbouring rocks, leaving their tender offspring to << bide the peltings of the pitiletis storm." So much for the ancient fable of . their feeding their young from their own veins I Sunday, June 2.- Last night the. wind was from the southeast, which induced me to hope that the skiff might have been drifted somewhere into our neighbourhood, and a man was despatched to the top of orie of the qliffs, with a glass, to lookout for her? He soon returned, and reported that he had niade out What he belleted to be the boat, fotir or five miles to the southward: This was joyful intelligence, and'we immediately started after her. We found her in the spot indicated, nearly foil of water, but with all the baggage undisturbed. • After" picking her up, we directed * our course still farther to the southward. Ward a high peak, which appeared to be either an island or a peninsula. We found it to be the latter, connected by a broad sandbar with a broken rocky range, which fonfts the northern termination of the ridge bounding Spring Valley on the west, and which I had crossed in November last, on my reeonnoiBsanc6 of the western shore of the - lake. We gave it the name of " Strong's Knob.*' After strolling a couple of miles on the sand- flat of the main " iBhofe, beneath, high, broken, perpendicular cliffs of black ' lime- ' stone, being desirous of obtaining a view of t) ie south- western portion of the lake, we ascended one of the highest peaks, from the summit of which rose a perpendicular oblong " mass of. rocks, which, from its singular resemblance to that article of dress, we called "€ loth Cap.'" The day was warm, * nd the mountain tip whioji we clambered from eight hundred to a thousand feet in height. Witji considerable labour we reached the top,, and were |