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 the name of Admiralty Inlet to an opening to the eastward of Cape York; naming a headland which forms one point of the entrance after the Right Honorable Charles Yorke, late first Lord of the Admiralty; and another, near it, after Lieutenant (now Sir John) Franklin. After quitting Sir James Lancaster’s Sound, he surveyed the western coast of Baffin’s Bay, till stopped by ice in the latitude of 68° 15' 20" and longitude 65° 48' 38". On the 3rd Sept. Lieutenant Parry passed some of the highest ice-bergs he had ever seen, one of them being not less than from 150 to 200 feet above the sea; and on the 6th, he was visited by several Esquimaux, from an inlet named the river Clyde; one of whom was prevailed on to sit pretty quiet while Lieutenant Beechey made a drawing of him. The whole party seemed much pleased, and expressed their delight by jumping, and by loud and repeated ejaculations. Lieutenant Parry and Captain Sabine landed upon an island, in order to observe the end of an eclipse of the sun, as well as to obtain the other usual observations, together with angles for the survey of that inlet.

Lieutenant Parry was advanced to the rank of Commander, Nov. 4, 1820; the day after his arrival at the Admiralty. On the 19th December, the Bedfordean gold medal of the Bath and West of England Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, was unanimously voted to him, and it was afterwards resolved,