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some other cliannel than the mere entrance of 1824. 

 the strait. August. 



Late in the evening we had arrived abreast 

 of that remarkable ridge of land, distinguished 

 by our earliest northern voyagers by the 

 name of Terra Nivea, from its being constantly 

 covered with snow. Although the mountains 

 in its vicinity are many of them of an equal 

 height with it, not one has a morsel of snow 

 on its highest pinnacle, while this unbroken 

 ridge does not shew the smallest speck of 

 rock. At four different periods, July, Septem- 

 ber, August, and October, in which I have 

 passed this land, its appearance has always 

 been the same. 



We had an excellent run all night, although 

 the weather was rainy and very thick, and by 

 four A.M., on the 8th, were abreast of Saddle 

 Back and the Middle Savage Islands ; which 

 are numerous, and several have long shoals 

 running from them. 



The fall of tide must here be very great, as 

 some pieces of ice, drawing at least twenty 

 feet, lay high and dry a considerable distance 

 up the rocky beaches. 



I had set the islands and gone to bed 

 at day-light, leaving the ship five miles 

 from the land, and running about as many 



