The wind, however, being light, we passed the night in Popham Bay; and on leaving next morning, had only six fathoms in some tide ripplings nearly two miles off its south point, Cape Don.

We passed along the south side of Melville Island, where a large fire was still burning.

Early in the evening we anchored in seven fathoms, to wait for a boat that had been sent to examine a shoal bay on the North-West side of Cape Keith.

Green Ant Cliffs bore South-West two miles.
September 7.
Weighing at daylight we hauled up south, into the middle of the channel, crossing a ridge of 5 1/2 fathoms; Ant Cliffs bearing West-South-West five miles, and three or four from the shore.

This ridge appears to be thrown up at the extremity of the flats fronting the shore.