[130] By angular measurement it was found to be 2,270 feet.
[131] The wristbands of our shirts, and all our outer clothes, were coated with ice, while our inner clothing was wet through.
[132] On heaving up the best bower, we found it had lost one fluke.
[133] The Adventure arrived on the 21st.—P. P. K.
[134] In the old Dutch charts, a passage was laid down near the place, and nearly in the direction of the Cockburn Channel, and named 'Jelouzelt:' but until some written authority can be produced to prove that this passage was explored, or, at the least, discovered by the person who gave the name of 'Jelouzelt' to one of the almost innumerable openings in Tierra del Fuego, it does not appear that the inlet so called has any claim to our consideration, greater than that of the non-existing San Sebastian Channel,—or a number of other imaginary passages which must have been laid down, upon supposition only, in many old charts.
The first person known to have passed through the Cockburn Channel was the mate of the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, who went in a boat (see page 66). It was afterwards passed by Mr. William Low, master of the Mercury, and has since been used by several vessels.
[135] Since surveyed by Capt. Fitz Roy in the Beagle, 1829-30.
[136] San Carlos, in Chilóe.
[137] Mr. Kirke.
[138] A heap, or stack of corn.