1 8 Land on Shannon Island. 



named Pendulum Islands, having been the station on which the 

 observations were made. 



] Itli. — Strong breezes from the N. N. E. ; the sky being per- 

 fectly clear we had a good view of the land ; the interior at a 

 considerable distance, very high. The nearest land seemed to 

 consist of a group of islands with deep bays, between which 

 there was no passage from the ice. At 10 a. m. shortened 

 sail and made fast to an iceberg a-ground in 7 fathoms, off shore 

 about half a-mile. Sent a boat on shore to make obsei"vations 

 and to examine the state of ice round a point of land. Latitude 

 observed 74° 55' N. We again made sail in the afternoon, and 

 proceeded to the northward with a fair wind ; we were, however, 

 impeded again by greater quantities round the ship than usual, 

 the passage near the land becoming much confined. At 11 

 P.M. we shortened sail, and made fast to the level ice, the pas- 

 sage being completely obstructed, with no appearance of water 

 to the northward or N. E. I sent a party on shore to ascend 

 the hills, and to examine the state of the ice. 



12th. — Next morning, the ice beginning to set in upon the ship, 

 we cast off and made sail to the southward ; at six hove-to and 

 sent a boat for the party on shore, and fired a gun as a signal ; 

 at eight the boat returned, and reported that the ice to the north 

 formed a solid and compact field, with no open water except by 

 the way we came. However anxious I felt to explore the coast 

 farther to the north, my instructions imperatively required me 

 to land Captain Sabine for his observations. I therefore reluc- 

 tantly bore up for a secure anchorage, which was not afforded in 

 our present situation. We had now reached what I considered 

 the N. E. point of Greenland, which is formed by an island in 

 Latitude 75° 12' N., and Longitude 17° 45' E. We ascended the 

 heights on shore, from which we plainly saw very high land due 

 north, at least as far as 76°. The island we were on being low 

 and lying off the main 30 or 40 miles, I named Shannon Island, 

 and the cape at its S. E. extremity Cape Philip Broke, from 

 the ship it was formerly my good fortune to serve on board, and 

 her gallant commander. Two remarkable rocks or islands were 

 named, from their resemblance, the Haystack and Ailsa, and an 

 inlet within them Roseneath Inlet. An extensive opening which 

 bore due west froin Shannon Island was named Ardencaple In- 



