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of these chinks in the rock. Cinders, earth-slag, 

 iron-sand, and fragments of iloctz rocks, covered the 

 beach and so much ' of the cliff as they had an op- 

 portunity of examining. 



The volcano discovered on this excursion, I ven- 

 tured to name Esk Mount, after the ship I com- 

 manded at the time ; and I named the first point of 

 land to the eastward (within Cape South-east) 

 Cape Fishhurn, and the point within Egg Island, 

 fonning the east side of Great Wood Bay, Cape 

 Brodrick, out of respect to my friends Messrs 

 Fishhurn and Brodrick, the owners of the Esk. 

 The intermediate Bay, where we landed, I named 

 Jameson Say, in remembrance of my respected 

 friend Professor Jameson. 



Some volcano in this neighbourhood, probably 

 Esk IMount, was, I believe, in action in the spring 

 of the following year. On the 29th of April 1818, 

 we made the island of Jan Mayen, bearing north, 

 in the ship Fame ; and having the wind from tlie 

 eastward, weathered it the next day. We stretch- 

 ed up to the northward among bay-ice, until we 

 came abreast of Jameson Bay, and could see dis- 

 tinctly Egg Island, the three icebergs, and other 

 objects of magnitude. From about the north side 

 of Egg Island, near Esk Mount, we were surprised 

 with the sight of considerable jets of smoke dis- 

 charged from the earth, at intervals of every three 

 f)r four minutes. At first we imagined the smoke 



