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done without loss of time. I therefore bore up for the 

 west end of the island. The wind blew faint; and 

 at ten o'clock it fell calm. Being not far from the 

 island, I went in a boat, and landed upon it, with a 

 view of seeing what lay on the other side ; but find- 

 ing it farther to the hills than I expected, and the 

 way being steep and woody, I was obliged to drop 

 the design. At the foot of a tree, on a little emi- 

 nence not far from the shore, I left a bottle, with a 

 paper in it, on which were inscribed the names of the 

 ships, and the date of our discovery. And along 

 with it I inclosed two silver twopenny pieces of his 

 Majesty's coin, of the date 177^- These, with many 

 others, were furnished me by the Reverend Dr. 

 Kaye * ; and, as a mark of my esteem and regard 

 for that gentleman, I named the island, after him, 

 Kaye's Island, It is eleven or twelve leagues in 

 length, in the direction of north-east and south-west ; 

 but its breadth is not above a league, or a league and 

 a half, in any part of it. The south-west point, 

 which lies in the latitude of 59 49', and the longi- 

 tude of 2 1 6 58', is very remarkable, being a naked 

 rock, elevated considerably above the land within it. 

 There is also an elevated rock lying off it, which, 

 from some points of view, appears like a ruined 

 castle. Toward the sea the island terminates in a 

 kind of bare sloping cliffs, with a beach, only a few 

 paces across to their foot, of large pebble stones, in- 

 termixed in some places with a brownish clayey sand, 

 which the sea seems to deposit after rolling in, having 

 been washed down from the higher parts, by the ri- 

 vulets or 'torrents. The cliffs are composed of a 

 bluish stone or rock, in a soft or mouldering state, 

 except in a few places. There are parts of the shore 

 interrupted by small valleys and gullies. In each of 

 these a rivulet or torrent rushes down with consider- 



* Then Sub-almoner, and Chaplain to his Majesty, afterwards 

 Dean of Lincoln. 



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