found to consist of a few straggling rocks, which were named Clerke's Rocks, as Lieut. Clerke had first discerned them.
The atmosphere clearing up next day, our navigator steered to the S. and S.E.; and though his progress was impeded by frequent fogs, he found himself on the 28th, in lat. 60° 4' S., long. 29° 23' W. Here he met with numbers of large icebergs, and a sea strewed with loose ice, and the weather at the same time being thick and hazy, he could not advance farther south; but moved about in various directions, as the winds, icebergs, and fogs permitted, till tuesday, the 31st, when, in standing N.N.E., the fog cleared away, and land was seen ahead, only three or four miles distant. This land, of which several portions were seen in succession, and which was thought to be of considerable extent, was named Sandwich Land. The Resolution was now approaching three high rocky islets, the outermost of which, terminating in a lofty peak like a sugar-loaf, was named Freezeland Peak, after the man who first discovered it. The elevated coast that rose behind, whose lofty snowclad summits were seen above the clouds, was called Cape Bristol. To the south there appeared another elevated coast, which was designated the Southern Thule, as being the most southerly land yet discovered. In steering towards it, the latitude observed was 59° 13' 30" S., longitude 27° 45' W. Some thought they saw land in the space between Thule and Cape Bristol, and the deep bay intervening was called Forster's Bay. The Captain attempted to proceed southward, to examine this new country; but unable to weather Thule, he tacked and stood to the north; and the wind hav-
