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 a vi#w of feeing what lay on the other»fide; but finding it
 farther to the hills than I expected, and the way being fteep
and woody, I was obliged to drop the delign. At the foot
of a tree, on a little eminence not far from the fhore, I left 3
bottle with a paper in it, on which were infcribed the names
of the fhips, and the date of our difcovery. And along with
it, I inclofed two iilver twopenny pieces of his Majefty's
coin, of the date 1772. Thefe, with many others, were
furnifhed me by the Reverend Dr. Kaye *; and, as a
mark of my efteem and regard for that gentleman, I named
the ffland, after him, Kaye's IJland. It is eleven or twelve
leagues in length, in the dire&ion of North Eaft and South
Weft; but its breadth is not above a league, or a league and
alialf, in any part of it. The South Weft point, which
lies ia the latitude ol $e? 49', and the longitude of 2160 58%
is very remarkable, being a naked rock, elevated consider-
ably above the land within it. There is alfo an elevated
rock lying off it, which, from fbm6 points of view, appears
like a ruined Qaftte, Toward the iea, the ifland terminates
in a kind of bare floping cliffs, with a beach, only a few
paces acrofs to their foot, of large pebble ftones, intermixed
in fome places with a brownifh clayey fand, which the fea
feems to depolit after rolling in, having been wafhed down
from the higher parts, by the cmalets or torrents. The cliffs
are compofed of abluiCb ftone ®t rock^in a fort or moulder-
ing ftate, except in a few places. There are parts of the
fhore interrupted by fhjall vallies and gullies. In each of
ihefe, a rivulet or torrent rufhes down with confiderable
impefcuofity; though, it may be. fuppofed that they are
only furnifhed from the fhoWj.and laft no longer than till it
is all melted. Thefe vaUies are filled with pine-trees, which
* Then Sub-almoner, and Chaplain to his Majefty, now Dean of Lincoln.
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