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Cape Borlase Warren ; " Than which," Clavering 

 says, u never was there a more desolate spot seen ; 

 Spitzbergen was, on the whole, a paradise to this 

 place." Proceeding along the coast, among floes 

 of ice, they discovered two islands, to which they 

 gave the name of the Pendulum Islands. 



Clavering passed them and stood on to the north- 

 ward, till stopped by ice ; and he had now reached 

 what he considered to be the N.E. point of Green- 

 land, formed by an island, in lat. 75° 12', from the 

 heights of which could plainly be seen high land, 

 due north, at least as far as lat. 76°. He named the 

 island Shannon Island, and the S.E. extremity 

 Cape Philip Broke, " from the ship it was my 

 good fortune to serve in, and under her gallant 

 commander here named." 



Getting under way, the Griper returned to the 

 southward, in a narrow channel close to the shore, 

 on which she grounded in 2| fathoms ; was got off by 

 lightening her ; anchored in a sheltered bay between 

 one of the Pendulum Islands ; landed Captain Sabine, 

 the observatory, tents, and instruments ; and pre- 

 pared the yawl and wherry for a distant excursion, 

 while Sabine was employed in his pendulum experi- 

 ments. On the 16th August he set out, taking with 

 him three officers and sixteen men. They landed- 

 on Cape Borlase Warren, about eighteen miles 

 to the southward, with each a boat-cloak and 

 a blanket; slept in them, and found no incon- 



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