. Fig. I. The Falkland Islands and their Dependencies. ^ Forster, in his Voyage round the World, 11, p. 536 (1777), says: "Thick clouds veiled the upper parts of the mountains, but one immense peak appeared towering beyond them, covered by snow. It was agreed by all present that the perpendicular height of this mountain could not be far short of two miles". We are indebted to Dr H. R. Mill for an extract from an unofficial and anonymous account of Cook's voyage, entitled " Journal of the Resolution's voyage in 1772-75 on Discovery to the Southern ;. It is dated
. Fig. I. The Falkland Islands and their Dependencies. ^ Forster, in his Voyage round the World, 11, p. 536 (1777), says: "Thick clouds veiled the upper parts of the mountains, but one immense peak appeared towering beyond them, covered by snow. It was agreed by all present that the perpendicular height of this mountain could not be far short of two miles". We are indebted to Dr H. R. Mill for an extract from an unofficial and anonymous account of Cook's voyage, entitled " Journal of the Resolution's voyage in 1772-75 on Discovery to the Southern ;. It is dated 1775 and was written by James Marra, gunner's mate. The author appears to have been under the impression that both South Georgia and Southern Thule were outlying parts of an Antarctic continent, though Cook was of course well aware that the former was an island. Marra remarks on "the horrid appear- ance the different views of the land exhibited" and, referring apparently to Cape Bristol, says "in some places the mountains rose higher than even Mr Foster, who had traversed the most mountainous parts of Europe, had ever beheld before. Our journalist has given a drawing of one, among many others, which he says, rose seventeen miles above the horizon, and whose top reached higher than the clouds. It was situated about the 59th degree of southern latitude and in east longitude 330 deg. nearly". In the illustration a praiseworthy attempt is made to show a small island 17 miles in height. Dr Mill thinks that this grotesque error is to be explained in the following way. Distances may have been entered in the log of the' Resolution' as minutes of latitude—meaning miles—and the author, finding a state- ment that the mountain was 17' above the horizon, concluded that these also were miles, without realizing that minutes of arc were intended.
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