July 1829. ADELAIDE’S PROCEEDINGS. 259 
Lieut. Skyring, and his assistant,* completed the survey of the 
entrance to the passage, which was named Smyth Channel, asa 
compliment to Capt. W. H. Smyth, R. N., under whom, while 
surveying the Mediterranean, both Lieuts. Skyring and Graves 
had served. 
The best channel they found to the eastward of Renouard 
Island, and the Adelaide took that course, but stopped a night 
in a small cove on the eastern side of the island, and in passing 
Shoal Island next day struck on a rock; she was got off how- 
ever without injury, and anchored afterwards, for a night, on 
the north side of the Island of the Narrows. 
The two following days (10th and 11th) were spent in 
examining the coast, and exploring Clapperton Inlet, which 
had the appearance of being a channel. From the hills at the 
bottom Lieut. Skyring noticed a considerable tract of low land 
and open plain, extending to the northward. On the 12th, 
being Sunday, they remained quiet, and on the 13th the wea- 
ther was so calm that they only reached Hose Harbour, on the 
east side; and the next day Oake Bay. Thence crossing the 
channel in a whaleboat they explored some distance along that 
shore; and on the 15th anchored in Otter Bay. This slow 
progress was unavoidable, owing to the calm state of the wea- 
ther, and to the survey being principally, if not entirely, carried 
on in boats. 
On the 16th the schooner was towed onwards, and passing 
over an extensive shoal flat of three fathoms, reached the Sum- 
mer Islands, where she might have stopped, but, as the tide 
was still favourable, she proceeded to an anchorage under 
Long Island, the most northern in the Elson group. 
The eastern shore of the channel was there very different in 
character from what they had so long been accustomed to, 
being nearly level ; and, extending for some distance off every 
low point, there was shoal water. 
For some days a lofty mountain, covered with snow, had 
been in sight; which, by angular measurement, proved to 
* Mr, Kirke. 
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