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COCKBURN ISLAND.
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débris which covers the sides and shores of the island, to the height of fourteen hundred feet from the beach. The eggs of this bird, which have never before been seen, are 2.2 inches long, 1.6 inch broad, and weigh from six hundred to seven hundred and fifty grains; they are of a bluish white colour, and only one egg, with the young in a forward state, was found in each nest, which was formed of a few feathers on the bare rock: the young birds are of a deep lead colour.
We returned to the ships at noon, and soon afterwards the flood tide from the northward came in so strong that, notwithstanding the assistance of a light wind and our boats a-head towing, it carried us between Cockburn Island and the main Jan. 6.land, some distance up the inlet; but as the channel appeared free from rocks, and there was very little ice about, it gave us no uneasiness; and the tide turning in our favour about 8 p.m., carried us out again. This arm of the sea is terminated at about twenty miles from its entrance by a glacier, which seems to connect the opposite shores; beneath this, as in the fiords of Greenland, it is not improbable its waters unite with those of the ocean to the southward. The inlet was named Admiralty Inlet; its western cape, a high, precipitous promontory, Cape Gage, after Vice-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, G.C.H.; and its eastern headland, Cape Seymour, after Rear-Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour, Knight, C.B., G.C.H.; the north cape of an extensive bay