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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
eastern sides of this tract of land, I gave the 
name of The Liverpool Coast, because of 
its headlands and islands having been chiefly 
named after Liverpool friends. The western 
part of this is washed by Hurry’s Inlet, which 
separates it from Jameson’s Land. My Father 
had boats between thirty and forty miles up this 
inlet, without finding a termination. They found 
the general width of the inlet from two to three 
leagues; and, near the extremity of their excur¬ 
sion, discovered three islands which were called, 
after my Father’s ship. Fame Islands. Two 
prominences in this inlet, received the names of 
Gibson’s Point, and Phillips’ Point, after 
two of my partners in the Baffin; and a third, 
Lloyd’s Point, after the captain of the Trafal¬ 
gar (one of the ships in company) who made some 
useful investigations about this inlet. 
The eastern coast of Jameson’s Land, which 
generally lies north and south, true, trends to¬ 
wards the south-west, below Cape Stewart, with 
a low flat shore, as far as the southern point, that 
received the name of Cape Hooker, after Dr 
Hooker, Professor of Botany in Glasgow. This 
coast then winds towards the W., NW., and N., 
so as to constitute Jameson’s Land either into a 
peninsula or an island. It has indeed every ap¬ 
pearance of an island; but no opportunity of dc- 
