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1837.] Kaye's Island, viewed from the eastward, presents the appearance of two islands. The southern is a high table-rock, free from trees or vegetation, and of a whitish hue; the other is moderately high land for this region, with three bare peaks; its lower region being well-wooded.

Wingham Island, which can be seen to nearly its whole length between Cape Suckling and Point Le Mesurier, (the north part of Kaye's Island,) is moderately elevated, rising in three hummocks, which are bare on their summits. The southern at a distance, owing to the lowness of the neck, appears separated. The whole is well clothed with trees.

In one direction from the southward, Cape Suckling exhibits on its bower profile, the brow, nose, and lips of a man. It is a low neck, stretching out from a mountainous isolated ridge, which terminates about three miles from it easterly, where the flats of the ice pyramids just alluded to terminate. Apparently the river or opening near Cape Suckling flows round its base. There is little doubt but that we may attribute the current to this outlet, arising probably from the melting of the snow. We had less strength of current after passing this position. Immense piles of drift-wood were noticed on each side of the opening, but none elsewhere. Floating-trees of considerable magnitude were numerous, and one sufficiently interesting to cause its admeasurement by sextant, which afforded two hundred feet as its probable length. Current northerly. Water,