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20th of July, the coast continues to trend nearly 
north and south, true, as far as 71° 33', where the 
Liverpool coast terminates in a bold headland. 
This was named Cape Gladstone, in compli¬ 
ment to John Gladstone, Esq. M. P., of Liver¬ 
pool. Beyond this cape the coast trends to the 
south-west, true, so as to form a deep inlet, two 
or three leagues in width, which, running towards 
Hurry’s Inlet, and being seen to meet it within 
about fifteen miles, renders it probable that the Li¬ 
verpool coast is an island, and that Hurry’s Inlet is 
a sound or channel, separating it from the islands 
or main, lying to the westward. To the north¬ 
west of Cape Gladstone, the whole coast has the 
appearance of islands. A considerable tract of 
bold land, in latitude 71° 36' to 71° 47', that 
seemed to be insular, received the name of Can¬ 
ning Island, after one of the Secretaries of 
State, many years representative of Liverpool; 
and a contiguous smaller island was named after 
Sir James Edwaed Smith, President of the 
Linnean Society. 
Our position at this time was nearly in the mid¬ 
dle of the opening of Davy’s Sound, of which, the 
two islands last mentioned, and other land to the 
westward of them, constitute the southern boun¬ 
dary, and Traill Island the northern boundary; 
the width of the sound betwixt them being about 
