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to the north-west was called Cape Gordon, after Captain the Honourable William Gordon, R.N.; and another, still further to the northward, with a high islet off it, Cape Corry, after the Right Honourable Thomas Lowry Corry; the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The deep bay between Cape Gage and Cape Gordon was named after the Honourable Sidney Herbert, M.P., First Secretary to the Admiralty; and a conspicuous headland to the southward of Cape Gage was called Cape Hamilton, after Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, R.N., Private Secretary to the Earl of Haddington, and now Second Secretary to the Admiralty.
The south-west land of Admiralty Inlet, for about ten miles from Cape Seymour, is formed of deep brown-coloured lava, with a polished surface, contorted, and grooved in so extraordinary a manner, as to give it the appearance of having been marked by machinery in numerous series of lines, somewhat resembling the engine turning of a watch-case, but more irregular. It is a narrow slip of land; and at one part, where the icy covering begins, there is either a low connecting neck of land or a narrow channel through it: this we could not determine. The snow-covered land rises gradually to the southward, to an elevation of about two thousand feet, without any rock projecting through it. It was named Snow Hill.
The western coast of Admiralty Inlet is formed of perpendicular cliffs of basaltic rock, which were perfectly free from land ice, except in one or two