WILKES LAND. 



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both to the east and to the west, and its westernmost 

 promontory was named Emmon's Point. Icebergs 

 covered with ddbris, sure harbingers of approaching land, 

 had been observed near this bay by the Porpoise before 

 land was actually seen. 



View of Adelie Land at Cap de la Decouverte (after Dumont d'Urville). 



Emmon's Point is succeeded by " Disappointment 

 Bay," bordered in the west by " Case Point ". Its 

 southernmost coast, beset by pack-ice, could not be 

 examined, in consequence of which the charts of the coast 



Adelie Land (after Dumont d'Urville). 



here leave a gap. On the other side of " Case Point" 

 also, no land was seen for a considerable distance in con- 

 sequence of bad weather, but then we come to a tract of 

 coast ol Wilkes Land, viz., Adelie Land, which is the 



