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free from obstruction. At eleven P.M., we were abreast of a bluff and 1820. 
remarkable headland, which I named after my much-esteemed friend, 
Mr. William Petrie Craufurd, and to the eastward of which the land appeared 
to recede, forming a large bay. I continued to run during the night, how- 
ever, being desirous of taking advantage of the westerly breeze which was 
still blowing, to run out of Sir James Lancaster’s Sound. 
It was not light enough till half-past three on the morning of the 31st, to Thur. 31. 
enable us to perceive that the land immediately to the eastward of Cape 
Craufurd was not continuous, there being a space subtending an angle of 
21° 42' in the middle of the supposed bay, where none was visible, though 
the weather was perfectly clear. As the wind drew almost directly out of 
this opening, to which I gave the name of Admiralty Inlet, and, as it was 
entirely occupied by ice, I did not think its further examination of sufficient 
importance to detain the Expedition, and therefore continued our course to 
the eastward. The headland, which forms the eastern point of the entrance, 
I named after The Right Honourable Charles Yorke, late First Lord of the 
Admiralty; and to another within the inlet, I gave the name of Cape 
Franklin, after my friend, Captain John Franklin, of the Royal Navy, 
now employed in investigating the northern shore of North America. On 
an inspection of the chart, it will appear more than probable, that 
the Admiralty Inlet may one day be found to communicate to the south- 
ward with Prince Regent’s Inlet, making the land between them an island. 
At half-past eight A.M., we were abreast of the Navy -Board Inlet, round 
the bottom of which the continuity of the land was still by no means 
clear to us ; in fact, it receded so far to the southward, as rather to 
strengthen the opinion we had before formed of the existence of a pas- 
sage in that direction; the quantity of ice which occupied this inlet, 
however, prevented our ascertaining this satisfactorily. Immediately off 
Cape Castlereagh, we discovered two low islands, which had not been 
seen on the preceding voyage, and which I named after Dr. William 
Wollaston, a gentleman well known in the scientific world, and one of the 
Commissioners of Longitude. To the eastward of the Cape, there is 
some comparatively low land next the sea, from which abruptly rise 
the lofty Byam Martin Mountains, whose summits are covered with per- 
petual snow. One of the highest of these, immediately at the back of 
Catherine’s Bay, of which we were abreast at noon, was found trigonometri- 
cally to be three thousand three hundred and eighty-two feet above the level 
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