# Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America, effected by the Officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company, during the years 1836—39/Appendix

APPENDIX.
LIST OF THE PLANTS
COLLECTED DURING THE
ARCTIC JOURNEY OF MESSRS. SIMPSON AND DEASE.
BY SIR W. J. HOOKER, K.H.
The collection from which the following list is made, formed by Mr. Dease amidst many privations and difficulties, possesses peculiar interest; the specimens being beautifully preserved, and arranged in three geographical groupes.—1. The first of these collections, as we shall here enumerate them, was made between the mouth of the Coppermine River, lat. 67° 54′ N., long. 115° 31′ W., and Point Turnagain, in 1838.—2. The second was formed about Fort Confidence, Great Bear Lake, lat. 66° 55′ N., long. 118° 48′ W.; also in the summer of 1838.—3. The third in the most western point of the journey, namely, between the mouth of the Mackenzie River and Boat Extreme, lat. 71° 3′ 24″ N., W. long. 154° 26′ 30″, in the summer of 1837.
Ranunculaceæ.
Papaveraceæ.
Cruciferæ.
Caryophylleæ.
Lineæ.
Leguminosæ.
Rosceæ.
Onagrariæ.
Saxifrageæ.
Compositæ.
Ericeæ.
Boragineæ.
Scrophularinæ.
Primulaceæ.
Plumbagineæ.
Empetreæ.
Amentaceæ.
Gramineæ.
II.—Plants collected aboat Fort Confidence, Great Bear Lake, lat, 66° 55′ N., long. 118° 48′ W.
Ranunculaceæ.
Cruciferæ.
Cabyophylleæ.
Hypbricineæ.
Leguminosæ.
Rosceæ.
Onagrariæ.
Saxifrageæ.
Compositæ.
Ericeæ.
Monotropeæ.
Scrophularinæ.
Primulaceæ.
Plumbagineæ.
Amentaceæ.
Juncagineæ.
Cyeraceæ.
Filices.
Muscoi.
Lichenes.
Ranunculaceæ.
Papaveraceæ.
Cruciferæ.
Caryophylleæ.
Leguminosæ.
Rosaceæ.
Crassulaceæ.
Saxifrageæ.
Compositæ.
Ericeæ.
Polemoniaceæ.
Borgineæ.
Scrophularinæ.
Primulaceæ.
Polygoneæ.
Amentaceæ.
TABLE OF THE MAGNETIC VARIATION AND DIP
OBSERVED BY MR. SIMPSON.
| Lat. N. | Lat. N. | Long. W. | Long. W. | Variation. | Variation. | Variation. | Dip. | Dip. | Place of Observation. |
| 51 | 45 | 102 | 5 | 17 | 0 | E. | | | Fort Pelly. |
| 58 | 43 | 111 | 18 | 26 | 6 | „ | | | Fort Chipewyan. |
| 61 | 11 | 113 | 45 | 37 | 16 | „ | | | Fort Resolution. |
| 61 | 51 | 121 | 25 | 37 | 10 | „ | | | Fort Simpson. |
| 66 | 16 | 128 | 31 | 44 | 12 | „ | | | Fort Good Hope. |
| 68 | 54 | 136 | 21 | 49 | 22 | „ | | | Shoal-water Bay. |
| 69 | 18 | 138 | 8 | 49 | 0 | „ | | | Point Kay. |
| 69 | 41 | 141 | 0 | 48 | 23 | „ | | | Point Demarcation. |
| 70 | 10 | 147 | 30 | 45 | 0 | „ | | | Point Anxiety. |
| 70 | 43 | 152 | 14 | 43 | 8 | „ | | | Point Comfort. |
| 71 | 2 | 154 | 14 | 42 | 36 | „ | | | Boat Extreme. |
| 67 | 11 | 117 | 5 | 49 | 30 | „ | | | Kendall River. |
| 67 | 7 | 116 | 21 | 48 | 0 | „ | | | Mouth of Kendall River. |
| 66 | 54 | 118 | 49 | 48 | 30 | „ | 84 | 48 | Fort Confidence. |
| 67 | 43 | 115 | 50 | 54 | 17 | „ | | | Bloody Fall. |
| 68 | 48 | 115 | 31 | 53 | 48 | „ | | | Mouth of Coppermine River. |
| 68 | 16 | 109 | 21 | 46 | 0 | „ | | | Boathaven. |
| 68 | 52 | 106 | 20 | 63 | 0 | „ | | | Trap Cape. |
| 68 | 44 | 106 | 3 | 60 | 38 | „ | | | Simpson's furthest, 1838. |
| 67 | 54 | 115 | 56 | 52 | 10 | „ | | | Mouth of Richardson's River. |
| 68 | 4 | 110 | 59 | | | | 87 | 13 | Cape Barrow. |
| 68 | 56 | 106 | 40 | | | | 88 | 15 | Cape Alexander. |
| 68 | 7 | 108 | 37 | 54 | 45 | E. | 88 | 20 | White-bear Point. |
| 68 | 21 | 97 | 25 | | | | 89 | 30 | Thunder Cove. |
| 68 | 4 | 95 | 41 | 1 to 1½ p$^{ts}$.E. | 1 to 1½ p$^{ts}$.E. | 1 to 1½ p$^{ts}$.E. | No var. | No var. | Cape Britannia. |
| 68 | 28 | 94 | 14 | 16 | 20 | W. | | | Castor and Pollux River. |
| 68 | 41 | 98 | 22 | 4pts. | 4pts. | E. | 89 | 29 | Cape Herschel. |