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A VOYAGE TO 



I77S- a view of feeing what lay on the other fide ; but finding it 

 \_J l- ._ j farther to the hills than I expedled, and the way being fleep 

 and woody, I was obliged to drop the defign. At. the foot of 

 a tree, on a little eminence not far from the fliore, I left a 

 bottle, with a paper in it, on which were infcribed the names 

 of the fliips, and the date of our difcovery. And along with 

 if, I inclofed two filver twopenny pieces of his Majefty's coin, 

 of the date 1772. Thefe, with many others, were furniflied 

 me by the Reverend Dr.Kaye*} and, as a mark of my ellcem 

 and regard for that gentleman, I named the ifland, after 

 him, Kayes IJland. It is eleven or twelve leagues in length, 

 in the direction of North Eaft and South Weft ; but its 

 breadth is not above a league, or a league and a half, in any 

 part of it. The South Weft point, which lies in the latitude 

 of 59° 49', and the longitude of 216° 58', is very remark- 

 able, being a naked rock, elevated confiderably above the 

 land within it. There is alfo an elevated rock lying off it, 

 which, from fome points of view, appears like a ruined 

 caftle. Toward the fca, the ifland terminates in a kind of 

 bare Hoping cliiTs, with a beach, only a few paces acrofs to 

 their foot, of large pebble ftones, intermixed in fome places 

 with a brownilh clayey fand, which the fca feeins to de- 

 pofit after rolling in, having been waflied down from the 

 higher parts, by the rivulets or torrents. The cliiTs are 

 compofcd of a blueifh ftone or rock, in a foft or mouldering 

 Hate, except in a few places. There are parts of the fliore 

 interrupted by fmall vallies and gullies. In each of thefe, 

 a rivulet or torrent ruflies down with confidcrable impetu- 

 ofity ; tliough it may be fuppofcd that they are only fur- 

 niflied from the Ihow, and hift no longer than till it is all 



* Then Sub-almoncr, and Chaplain to his Majefty, now Dean of Lincoln. 



melted. 



