Shall we keep the name of the Chimneys for our first encampment, captain ?" "Yes, Pencroft, since you have so christened it." "Good! as for the others, that will be easy," returned the sailor, who was in high spirits.

"Let us give them names, as the Robinsons did, whose story Herbert has often read to me; Providence Bay, Whale Point, Cape Disappointment!" "Or, rather, the names of Captain Harding," said Herbert, "of Mr.
Spilett, of Neb!--" "My name!" cried Neb, showing his sparkling white teeth.
"Why not ?" replied Pencroft.

"Port Neb, that would do very well! And Cape Gideon--" "I should prefer borrowing names from our country," said the reporter, "which would remind us of America." "Yes, for the principal ones," then said Cyrus Harding; "for those of the bays and seas, I admit it willingly.

We might give to that vast bay on the east the name of Union Bay, for example; to that large hollow on the south, Washington Bay; to the mountain upon which we are standing, that of Mount Franklin; to that lake which is extended under our eyes, that of Lake Grant; nothing could be better, my friends.

These names will recall our country, and those of the great citizens who have honored it; but for the rivers, gulfs, capes, and promontories, which we perceive from the top of this mountain, rather let us choose names which will recall their particular shape.