high. Beyond it the outline of high land could be well distinguished. At 6 p.m. we suddenly found the barrier trending to the southward, and the sea studded with icebergs. I now hauled off until daylight, in order to ascertain the trending of the land more exactly. I place this point, which I have named Cape Carr, after the first lieutenant of the Vincennes, in long. 131° 40′ E., lat. 64° 49′ S."[1]
There can therefore be no doubt that it really was land Balleny saw; and which will probably prove to be a continuation of D'Urville's Terre Adelie, discovered by him on the 19th of January, and approached so near on the 21st as to enable some of his officers to land on a small islet off its shores. This land was seen by Lieutenant Wilkes just a week afterwards, but he was then unconscious of its having been previously visited by the French navigator.
"Appearance of land" is mentioned again in the Log of the Eliza Scott on the 2d of March, when in lat. 65° S., and long. 122° 44′ E., and the last point where Balleny saw land with certainty is thus recorded in the Log.
"March 3.—At 4 a.m. found the ice so close, and getting more compact, we tacked in hopes of getting between it and the land; but the weather was so thick we soon lost sight of it. At 8 it cleared off: found ourselves surrounded by icebergs of immense size, and to the S.W. the ice was completely fast, and
- ↑ Narrative of United States Exploring Expedition, vol. ii. p. 321.
