and the way being steep and woody, I was obliged to drop the design.  At the foot of a tree, on a little eminence not far from the shore, I left a bottle with a paper in it, on which were inscribed the names of the ships, and the date of our discovery.  And along with it, I inclosed two silver two-penny pieces of his majesty’s coin, of the date 1772.  These, with many others, were furnished me by the Reverend Dr Kaye;[7] and, as a mark of my esteem and regard for that gentleman, I named the island, after him, Kaye’s Island.  It is eleven or twelve leagues in length, in the direction of N.E. and S.W.; but its breadth is not above a league, or a league and a half, in any part of it.  The S.W. point, which lies in the latitude of 59 deg. 49’, and the longitude of 216 deg. 58’, is very remarkable, being a naked rock, elevated considerably above the land within it.  There is also an elevated rock lying off it, which, from some points of view, appears like a ruined castle.  Toward the sea, the island terminates in a kind of bare-sloping cliffs, with a beach, only a few paces across to their foot, of large pebble stones, intermixed in some places with a brownish clayey sand, which the sea seems to deposit after rolling in, having been washed down from the higher parts, by the rivulets or torrents.  The cliffs are composed of a bluish stone or rock, in a soft or mouldering state, except in a few places.  There are parts of the shore interrupted by small vallies and gullies.  In each of these, a rivulet or torrent rushes down with considerable impetuosity; though it may be supposed that they are only furnished from the snow, and last no longer than till it is all melted.  These vallies are filled with pine-trees, which grow down close to the entrance, but only to about half way up the higher or middle part of the island.  The woody part also begins, every-where, immediately above the cliffs, and is continued to the same height with the former; so that the island is covered, as it were, with a broad girdle of wood, spread upon its side, included between the top of the cliffy shore; and the higher parts in the centre.  The trees, however, are far from being of an uncommon growth; few appearing to be larger than one might grasp round with his arms, and about forty or fifty feet high; so that the only purpose they could answer for shipping, would be to make top-gallant masts, and other small things.  How far we may judge of the size of the trees which grow on the neighbouring continent, it may be difficult to determine.  But it was observed, that none larger than those we saw growing, lay upon the beach amongst the drift-wood.  The pine-trees seemed all of one sort; and there was neither the Canadian pine, nor cypress, to be seen.  But there were a few which appeared to be the alder, that were but small, and had not yet shot forth their leaves.  Upon the edges of the cliffs, and on some sloping ground, the surface was covered with a kind of turf, about