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the southernmost headland of the coast recently 
surveyed; beyond which it runs more northerly. 
About five leagues to the westward (true) of this 
cape, a new coast appears, which being rather low 
land, of a snlooth surface, and regular brown co¬ 
lour, has a totally different character from the 
adjoining country. It received the name of 
Jameson’s Land, iu token of friendship to Pro¬ 
fessor Jameson, the highly respected President of 
the Wernerian Society. 
The coast on the southern side of the great in¬ 
let is entirely mountainous. It is terminated to 
the eastward by a bold narrow promontory, which 
I named Cape Brewster, in compliment to 
another much esteemed friend, the Secretary to 
the Royal Society of Edinburgh. From Cape 
Brewster, the land runs nearly due west, for about 
twenty miles, and then about WNW. to a still 
o-reater distance. 
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Cape Brewster was surrounded by thin land-' 
floes, thickly studded with icebergs; several dozens 
of which were at this time visible from the mast¬ 
head. This ice extended more than half-way across 
the mouth of the inlet, from the southern coast; 
but the northern side was quite clear. We hove 
to near the edge of the land-floes, about 7 A. M., 
and remained nearly stationary, until I obtained 
a series of bearings, and altitudes of the sun for 
