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Identifier: Journalsecondvo00Parr (find matches)
Title: Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795-1832, ill Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, engraver Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, dedicatee
Subjects: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Fury (Ship) Hecla (Ship) Natural history Eskimos Inuit
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ounting, in some instances, to deformity, which I have not noticedelsewhere. It consists in the inner corner of the eye being entirely coveredby a duplication of the adjacent loose skin of the eye-lids and nose. Thisfold is lightly stretched over the edges of the eye-lids, and forms as it werea third palpebra of a crescentic shape. The aperture is in consequence ren-dered somewhat pynform, the inner curvature being very obtuse, and insome individuals distorted by an angle formed where the fold crosses theborder of the lower palpebra. This singularity depends upon the variableform of the orbit during immature age, and is very remarkable in childhood,less so towards adult age, and then, it would seem, frequently disappearingaltogether; for the proportion in which it exists among grown-up personsbears but a small comparison with that observed among the young. Personal deformity from mal-conformation is uncommon; the onlyinstance I remember being that of a young woman, whose utterance was
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OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 549 unintelligibly nasal, in consequence of an imperfect development of thepalatine bones leaving a gap in the roof of the mouth. ill iljod ,.f>JI) nrfr • f• if i if)ir flHOi i;j*jtlAbWwtli fijii • f,i» «£t«^t*t>>ys ^t&faM()tnIVThe imperfect arithmetic of these people, which resolves every numberabove ten into one comprehensive word, prevented our obtaining any verycertain information respecting the population of this part of North Americaand its adjacent, islands. The principal stations of these people, not visitedby us, are Akkoolee, Toonoonee-roochhih, Peelig, and Toonoonek, of whosesituation I have already spoken. The first of these, which is the only onesituated on the continent, lies in an indentation of considerable depth, onthe shores of the Polar Sea, running in towards Repulse Bay on the oppo-site coast, and forming with it the large peninsula situated like a bastion atthe north-east angle of America, which I have named Melvill

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