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MOUNT SABINE.
[Chap. VII.
1841
to them for the efficient manner in which our ships were fitted out under their auspices; for the ample means we were provided with by their liberality; and for the encouragement we received previous to our departure, by witnessing the warm, personal interest they took in perfecting the equipment of the expedition; as well as for the many instances of friendship with which they honoured me; the remembrance of which often, during the voyage, proved a powerful stimulus to renewed exertion. Mount Troubridge, Mount Pechell, and Mount Dalmeny were named after Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge, Bart., C.B.; Captain Sir Samuel J. Brooke Pechell, Bart., C.B., K.C.H.; and the Right Honourable Lord Dalmeny; the three junior lords. The positions of these mountains are given in the Geographical Table in the Appendix to this volume. Mount Dalmeny formed the western extreme of the Admiralty Range, as also the westernmost land in sight, and was distant from us between seventy and eighty miles. The height of Mount Sabine was found, by means of several measurements, to be rather less than ten thousand feet, and about thirty miles from the coast. The elevations of the other mountains were not determined with accuracy, but we judged them to vary from seven to nine thousand feet; and altogether they presented as grand and magnificent a view as can well be imagined. A cape to the westward of Cape Adare, having a deep bay between them, was named after Charles Wood, Esq.,
