Several glaciers descended in a winding course from the upper great expanse of snow to the sea-coast: they may be likened to great frozen Niagaras; and perhaps these cataracts of blue ice are full as beautiful as the moving ones of water.

By night we reached the western part of the channel; but the water was so deep that no anchorage could be found.

We were in consequence obliged to stand off and on in this narrow arm of the sea, during a pitch-dark night of fourteen hours long.
JUNE 10, 1834.
In the morning we made the best of our way into the open Pacific.
The western coast generally consists of low, rounded, quite barren hills of granite and greenstone.

Sir J.Narborough called one part South Desolation, because it is "so desolate a land to behold:" and well indeed might he say so.

Outside the main islands there are numberless scattered rocks on which the long swell of the open ocean incessantly rages.