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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. a view of feeing what lay on the other fide; but finding it 
farther to the hills than I expected, and the way being fteep 
and woody, I was obliged to drop the defign. At the foot 
of a tree, on a little eminence not far from the fhore, I left a 
bottle with a paper in it, on which were infcribed the names 
of the fhips, and the date of our difcovery. And along with 
it, I inclofed two filver twopenny pieces of his Majefty’s 
coin, of the date 1772. Thefe, with many others, were 
furniflied me by the Reverend Dr. Kaye *; and, as a 
mark of my efteem and regard for that gentleman, I named 
the bland, after him, Kaye's IJland. It is eleven or twelve 
leagues in length, in the direction of North Eaft and South 
Weft; but its breadth is not above a league, or a league and 
a half, in any part of it. The South Weft point, which 
lies in the latitude of 59 0 49', and the longitude of 216° 58', 
is very remarkable, being a naked rock, elevated confider- 
ably above the land within it. There is alfo an elevated 
rock lying off it, which, from fome points of view, appears 
like a ruined caftle. Toward the fea, the bland terminates 
in a kind of bare Hoping cliffs, with a beach, only a few 
paces acrofs to their foot, of large pebble ftones, intermixed 
in fome places with a brownifh clayey fand, which the fea 
feems to depofit after rolling in, having been wafhed down 
from the higher parts, by the rivulets or torrents. The cliffs 
are compofed of a bluifti ftone or rock, in a foft or moulder¬ 
ing ftate, except in a few places. There are parts of the 
ihore interrupted by fmall vallies and gullies. In each of 
thefe, a rivulet or torrent rufhes down with considerable 
impetuoftty ; though it may be fuppofed that they are 
only furnifhed from the fnow, and daft no longer than till it 
is all melted. Thefe vallies are filled with pine-trees, which 
* Then Sub-almoner, and Chaplain to his Majefty, now Dean of Lincoln. 
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