88 SECURE IN NORTHUMBERLAND SOUND. [August, 



the direction of the strait by which she entered, and had 

 contrived to reach Barrow's or Sir Robert Inglis's Bays, 

 never would have repassed Beechey Island (if they ever 

 do, as it is). From the summit of Mount Percy, Cape 

 Becher is shut out, and Baillie Hamilton Island not de- 

 finable. The Point to which Captain Penny has given 

 the name of Sir J. Franklin, is the point of Long Island, 

 twelve miles southerly, covering Barrow Bay ; but as it 

 was manifestly intended by Government that the names 

 of Sir John and Lady Franklin should occupy the limit- 

 ing points of the Queen's Channel, I have removed them 

 there. 



From this point our new world commences ; and as I 

 have taken such liberties with Sir F. Baring Bay on my 

 passage up, I think I cannot better place his name, than 

 by giving him the great bight within us, easterly. I have 

 not interfered with any of the points southerly, as named 

 by Captain Penny, but the islands will take appropriate 

 names as may be hereafter assigned to them. 



Attyust 18. Our measures were not taken an instant 

 too soon ; hardly were we secured in Northumberland 

 Sound, than the ice began to threaten, and it soon be- 

 came evident that we must select more secure quarters. 

 However, before the ice had made any breach into our 

 snug position, I ran over with the ' Pioneer' to the 

 northern remarkable island, and from its summit I soon 

 perceived that, for the present, all progress by ship must 

 be stayed. I had also sent Commander Richards to an- 

 other higher mount, so that our motions, at all events, 

 by ship, boats, or sledges, should be based on some fixed 

 positions. The view from the pinnacle of the island, 



