HEADLANDS DISCOEVE11D AND NAMED. 181 
above the level of the sea, and four or five hun¬ 
dred feet in diameter. As the depth of water at 
the ship was only eighty-two fathoms, there was 
reason to believe that the whole of the icebergs 
in-shore of us were aground. At this time, wc 
were within three miles of an apparently insular 
foreland (bearing WNW. true) presenting a pre¬ 
cipitous face towards us, of above 2000 feet in 
elevation. This I named Raffles Island, 
out of respect to the Reverend Dr Raffles of Li¬ 
verpool. 
Another headland, of very similar appearance 
and steepness, also at the distance of about three 
miles from us, bearing WSW. (true), was named 
Cape Hodgson, after another esteemed friend, 
and was found to be 2580 feet high. 
The coast from latitude 71° 30' to Cape Hodg¬ 
son in 70° 32', trends nearly north and south, 
true, and is entirely mountainous: to the south¬ 
ward of Cape Hodgson, however, its direction be¬ 
comes south-westerly, and its elevation gradually 
diminishes to a low sloping point in 70 ° 28', that 
received the name of Cape Swainson, in com¬ 
pliment to the author of “ Zoological Illustra¬ 
tions.” Here the land running more westerly, 
disappeared; but reappeared again with its usual 
mountainous character, at the distance of about 
20 miles to the southward of Cape Swainson. 
