Though our route from York Factory has rather inclined to the South-West the dip, it will be perceived, has gradually increased.

The difference produced by reversing the face of the instrument was 7 degrees 39 minutes.

There was too much wind to admit of our observing with any degree of accuracy the quantity of the magnetic force.
We left Norway House soon after noon and, the wind being favourable, sailed along the northern shore of Lake Winnipeg the whole of the ensuing night; and on the morning of the 8th landed on a narrow ridge of sand which, running out twenty miles to the westward, separates Limestone Bay from the body of the Lake.

When the wind blows hard from the southward it is customary to carry boats across this isthmus and to pull up under its lee.

From Norwegian Point to Limestone Bay the shore consists of high clay cliffs against which the waves beat with violence during strong southerly winds.