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VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY 
1819. narwhals were blowing about us in all directions, and two walruses with a 
young one were seen upon a piece of ice. 
Sund.22. The fog clearing up on the following day, we found ourselves abreast a bay, 
to which the name of Radstock Bay was subsequently given by Lieut. Liddon’s 
desire, in compliment to the Earl of Radstock. This bay is formed by a 
point of land, on the eastern side, which I named Cape Eardley Wilmot ; 
and on the western, by a bluff headland, which was called after Captain 
Tristram Robert Ricketts, of the Royal Navy. In the centre of Radstock 
bay, lies an insular-looking piece of land, which received the name of 
Caswall’s Tower. We now also caught a glimpse of more land to the 
southward ; but, owing to a thick haze which hung over the horizon in 
that quarter, the continuity of land on a great part of that coast, to 
the westward of Cape Clarence, remained, for the present, undetermined. 
Immediately to the westward of us, we discovered more land, occupying 
several points of the horizon, which renewed in us considerable appre- 
hension, lest we should still find no passage open into the Polar sea. As we 
advanced slowly to the westward, the land on which Cape Ricketts stands, ap- 
peared to be nearly insular ; and, immediately to the westward of it, we disco- 
vered a considerable opening, which we called Gascoyne’s Inlet, after General 
Gascoyne, and which I should have been glad to examine in a boat, had time 
permitted. In the afternoon, the weather became very clear and fine, the wind 
being light from the westward. As this latter circumstance rendered our progress 
very slow, the opportunity was taken to despatch the boats on shore, for the 
purpose of making observations ; and at the same time, a boat from each ship, 
under the respective command of Lieutenants Beechey and Hoppner, was sent 
to examine a bay, at no great distance to the northward and westward 
of us. The first party landed at the foot of a bluff headland, which forms the 
eastern point of this bay, and which I named after my friend Mr. Richard Riley, 
of the Admiralty. They had scarcely landed ten minutes, when a fresh breeze 
unexpectedly sprung up from the eastward, and their signal of recall was 
immediately made. They were only, therefore, enabled to obtain a part of 
the intended observations, by which the latitude was found to be 74° 39' 51", 
the longitude 91° 47' 36".8, and the variation of the magnetic needle 
128° 58' 07" westerly. The cliffs on this part of the coast were observed to 
consist almost entirely of secondary limestone, in which fossils were abun- 
dantly found. There was little or no vegetation in those parts which our 
gentlemen had an opportunity of examining during their short excursion ; but, 
