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this island being cleared of all drift-ice by, I suppose, the prevailing 
southerly winds, others might be found more favourable. 
Feb. 16.—We could see now high mountains to the southward, and, 
the weather being particularly clear, must have been at least ninety miles 
off. On this night and all the 17th the weather was very thick, which 
obliged me to stand to the N.W., and although there was scarcely a living 
thing to be seen near the island we had left, birds were now very thick 
about us. p.m. Hauled up N.E., having made a N.N.W. course about 
ninety miles. 
On the 17th and 18th passed several small islands of exactly the 
same appearance as Adelaide Island. This range lays W.S.W. and 
E.N.E., and had no mountains on their tops, but a complete field of snow 
and ice perfectly smooth except near their edges. I could plainly see a 
tier of very high mountains in the background, which had a grand 
appearance. 
Feb. 19.—At 4 p.m. I sent the boat to an island, which appeared to 
join the mainland, and some naked rocks lying off the mouth of a con- 
siderable entrance. I had great hopes of finding seal in them. At 
10 a.m. the boat returned, not having found anything alive on the island, 
but having pulled quite round what Mr. White informed me was an 
excellent harbour for shelter, although a rocky bottom. J have named 
this island Pitt’s Island, from the great likeness of an iceberg to that 
statesman in a sitting posture, and which for some time I took to be a 
rock. This island has many bays in it; the centre part of the west 
side, latitude 65° 20'S., longitude 66° 38’ W., by good sights [and] chrono- 
meters. A heavy 8.W. swell setting on shore prevented me from running 
between this and a smaller island to the N.W. towards the mainland, 
which J had at first intended to do. The weather became thick, and 
having many rocks in sight, hauled out to the westward. 
Feb. 21.—On the 21st I again stood towards the mainland, and at 
8 a.m. went in the boat myself and pulled into a large inlet; the bottom 
appeared to be rocky in places where it could be seen, but I found no 
bottom with 20 fathoms, but as we found no seal nor indeed anything 
but penguins and a few birds, I did not sound with a deeper line. This 
being the mainland, I took possession of it in the name of His Majesty 
King William the Fourth, the highest mountain I named Mount William 
on the same occasion; the next in height I named Mount Moberly, in 
honour of Captain John Moberly of His Majesty’s Navy; the water 
was so still that could any seal have been found the vessels might have 
been loaded with the greatest facility, as they might have lain along- 
side many of the rocks perfectly secure. These rocks for the most part 
were clear of snow; the day being fine and the sun very warm makes 
it the more surprising that nothing was found upon them. On one of 
them I observed two young Port Egmont hens lying partly on the 
rocks and partly on the snow without either nest or shelter. On the 
