t98 aRINNELL LAND. 
ikiiles from Gape Hotham. Cape Bowden, on the east- 
ern side, has disappeared; and on the west, Advance 
Blttfl', a dark, projecting cape, from which we took 
sextant angles, was seen bearing to the west of .south. 
To the northward and westward low land was seen, 
having the appearance of an island,* and mountain 
tops terminating the low strip ahead. The trend of 
the shore on our left, the western, is clearly to the 
westward since leaving Advance BJuff. It is rolling, 
with terraced shingle beach, and without bluffs. It 
terminates, or apparently terminates, abruptly, thus ; 
after which comes a strip without visible land, and 
then the mountain tops mentioned above. Beyond this 
w'estern shore, distant only seven miles, we see mount- 
ain tops, distant and very high, rising above the clouds. 
September 25 , Wednesday. The wind has changed, 
so that our helpless drift is now again to the north. 
The day was comparatively free from snow ; but not 
clear enough to give us an observation, or to exhibit 
the more distant coast-lines. We can see the western 
shore very plainly covered with snow, and stretching 
in rolling hills to the north and west. A little indent- 
ation, nearly opposite the day before yesterday, is now 
in nearly the same phase — if any thing, a little to the 
southward. ^Ve have therefore changed our position 
by drift not so much as on the preceding days. The 
* I have followed my journal literally. I fmd, however, in my copy of the 
log-book, below the entry of the watch-officer which mentions this island, a 
note made by me at the time : “ I can see no island, but simply this prolonga-. 
tion or longue.” 
