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sixteen miles. A distant tract of a mountainous 
country was seen to run across the interior of 
Davy’s Sound. But it appears to be insular, and 
does not close up the Sound. Three capes that 
were distinctly defined on the southern part of 
this island, received the names of Cape Biot, 
Cape Bossily, and Cape Buaciie, in compli¬ 
ment to three French Philosophers, members of 
the Institute; and the north-eastern Cape of the 
same island was called after Professor Pictet of 
Geneva. To the westward of this island there is 
a small chain of the most elevated mountains 
hitherto met with upon this coast. This chain, 
named Werner Mountains, in respect to the 
memory of the celebrated geologist, is distinctly 
seen at the distance of between thirty and forty 
leagues, in the ordinary state of the atmosphere, 
and is so bold that it gives to the mountainous 
coast before it, the appearance of low hummocky 
land. To the southward of Cape Biot is a rami¬ 
fication of the Main Sound, which was named 
Fleming Inlet, after the esteemed author of 
the “ Philosophy of Zoology,” penetrating to the 
westward and southward; and between Cape Pic¬ 
tet and Traill Island, Davy’s Sound runs towards 
the north-west, to an extent that, being beyond 
the reach of vision, could not be determined. 
As we had no opportunity of getting intersect- 
