Feb. 1827. ADMIRALTY SOUND. 57 
After satisfying ourselves that there was no channel here, we 
bore up on our original course ; but, before long, found our- 
selves within two Asi of the bottom of the Enns ; which is 
shallow, and appears to receive two rivers. The great quantity 
of ice water, which mingles here with the sea, changed its 
colour to so pale a blue, that we thought ourselves in fresh 
water. 
Mount Hope proved to be an isolated mass of hills, lying 
like the rest N.W. and S.E., having low land to the southward, 
over which nothing was visible except one hill, thirty or forty 
miles distant, covered with snow, to which the rays of the sun 
gave the appearance of a sheet of gold. Finding ourselves 
embayed, we hastened out of the scrape, and, after beating for 
some hours, anchored in Parry Harbour. 
Our entrance into a little cove in Parry Harbour disturbed 
a quantity of ducks, steamers, shags, and geese. ‘Their numbers 
showed that Indians had not lately visited it. 
Next day we reached Ainsworth Harbour, which is of the 
same character as Parry Harbour, and affords perfect security 
for small vessels: by dint of sweeping, we reached a secure 
anchorage in a cove at the south-east corner. 
The bottom of the port is formed, as I before said, by an 
immense glacier, from which, during the night, large masses 
broke off and fell into the sea with a loud crash,* thus explain- 
ing the nocturnal noises we had often heard at Port Famine, 
and which at the time were thought to arise from the eruption 
of volcanoes. Such were also, probably, the sounds heard by 
the Spanish officers during their exploration of the Straits, 
whilst in the port of Santa Monica, where they had taken 
refuge from a violent gale of wind. 
_ * At high tide the sea-water undermines, by thawing, large masses of 
ice, which, when the tide falls, want support, and, consequently, break 
off, bringing after them huge fragments of the glacier, and falling into 
the still basin with a noise like thunder. 
+ “En los dias 24, y 25, oimos un ruido sordo, y de corta duracion, 
que, por el pronto, nos parecié trueno; pero habiendo reflexionado, nos 
inelinamos a creer que fué efecto de alguna explosion subterranea, 
formado 
