ISLANDS DISCOVERED AND NAMED. 179 
crested and serrated with pinnacles, was named 
Roscoe Mountains, in compliment to the re¬ 
spected author of the “ Life of Lorenzo de Me¬ 
dici.” The general height of this coast, I esti¬ 
mated at 3000 feet. Several islands were disco¬ 
vered on the skirts of the coast. These were of a 
different character, being more rounded and unin¬ 
teresting in the structure of the rocks, than the 
land which we considered as the main. One of 
the southernmost of these, lying in latitude 70° 40', 
having an insulated peak jutting into the sea, with 
a rock on the summit, resembling the ruins of a 
castle, 1 named after my esteemed friend Mr 
William Rathbone ; and another island, 
about half a league to the northward, in compli¬ 
ment to Mr B. A. IIey wood. A third island, 
nearly adjoining the latter, I named Sandbach 
Island, after another much respected friend; 
and a small one intermediate between the two 
latter, after Mr Charles Parker. 
There was very little snow upon this land: the 
acuteness of the summits of the mountains, in¬ 
deed, and the steepness of the sides, seem to pre¬ 
clude any considerable lodgment of snow on the 
coast. Two or three glaciers, or parent icebergs, 
were here observed : one of them, in latitude 
70° 58', is of very considerable elevation and ex¬ 
tent. 
