74 L O R D A N S O N ’ S V O Y A G E
This appearance of the Streights, in this fituation,' is repre&nted
in the annexed plate, where (a) is part o f Staten-land, '(#) Cape
St. Bartholomew, (r) part of Terra del Faego, (d j Port Maurice-,
and (e) fuppofed to be Valentine's hay, or the bay o f good fuccefs.
And here I mail obferve, that though Frezier has given ns a very
correct profpeil of the part of Terra del Faego which borders on ■
the Streights, yet he has omitted that of Staten-land, which forms
the oppofite fhore: hence we found it difficult to determine exactly
where the Streights lay, till they began to open to Qur v iew ;
and for want o f this, if we had not happened to havecoafted a con-
fiderable way along fhore, we might have mifled the Streights, and
have got to the eaftward o f Staten-land before we knew it. This
is an accident that has happened to many {hips ; particularly, as
Frezier mentions, to the Incarnation and Concord; who, intending
to pafs through Streights h e Moire, were deceived by three hills
on Staten-land like the Three Brothers and feme creeks refembling
thofe o f Terra del Faego, and thereby over-fhot the Streights. T o
prevent thefe accidents for the future, there is inferted the Weft
profpedt of Staten-land, where (a) is Cape St. Diego,, on Terra del
Fitego, (Fy Cape St. Bartholomew, on Staten-land. This drawing
will hereafter render it impoffibfc for any fhips to- be deceived in
the manner abovementioned, or to find any difficulty in diftinguifh-
ing the points of land by which the Streights are formed.
And, on occafion of this profpeQ, o f Staten-land here inferted,
1 cannot but remark, that though Terra del Faego had an afpedfc
extremely barren and defokte, yet this Ifland of Staten-land far
furpafies. it in the wildnefs and horror o f its appearance ; 'it feem-
ing to be entirely compofed inacceffible rocks, without the leaft
mixture o f earth or mold between them. Thefe rocks terminate
in a vaft number o f ragged points, which fpire up to a prodigious
height, and are all of them covered with everlafting fnow: the
points themfelves are on every fide ferrounded with frightful precipices,
and’often overhang in a moft aftonifhing manner and the.
hills, which Keat them are generally feparated from, each other by
i narrow