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extensive ramifications, to a distance of sixty miles 
from the extreme capes, or entrance of the inlet. 
As such, after some scruples of delicacy, lest it 
should be considered as bordering on self-compli¬ 
ment, I ventured to name this capacious inlet, in 
honour of my Father, Scoiiesisy’s Sound*. 
The extreme headlands, which may be consi¬ 
dered as forming the entrance of Scoresby’s Sound, 
are Cape Hodgson on the north, and Cape Brew¬ 
ster on the south, which lie about twenty-four 
miles apart, in a direction SW b S., true. But 
between Cape Brewster and Cape Tobin, that lie 
nearly in the same meridian, the width diminishes 
to about fourteen miles, beyond which the Sound 
again expands. From Cape Tobin, on the north 
side, where the land declines to the beach, the 
coast trends WNW. (true) to Cape Hope, and 
from thence, by a low regular shore, towards the 
north, in a direction parallel to the eastern coast, 
thus giving the land a peninsular form, with the 
appearance of an island. To the southern and 
* The term Sound, by the British, is generally applied 
to channels between islands, or to passages between islands 
and the main-land ; but in the north of Europe, and in the 
coasts of Baffin’s Bay, as also in those of Spitsbergen, &c., 
this term is given (and I conceive with considerable pro¬ 
priety) to any apparently interminable arm of the sea. I 
have, therefore, adopted it in the naming of this inlet. 
