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fandy bay, bat where there is no landing ; (b ) are four remarkable
white rocks] and from the point U j there runs another bay to the
weftward. T o thefe diredtions I muft add, that the coaft is no
ways to be dreaded between the middle of OBober and the beginning
of May, nor is there then any danger • from the winds :
Though in the remaining part of the year there are frequent and
violent tornadoes, heavy rains, and hard gates in alt dire&ons of
the cbmpafs. .
Such are the infallible marks by which the harbour o f Chequetan
may be known to thofe who keep well'in with the-land.' But as
to-thofe who keep at any confiderable diftance from the coaft,
there'is no other method to be taken for finding the place, than
that of making it by the latitude : For there are fo many ranges of
mountains riling one upon the, back o f another within land, that
no drawings of the appearance of the coaft can be at all depended
on when off at fea ; every little change of diftance or variation o f
pofit'ion bringing new mountains in view, and producing an infinity
of different profpedts, which render all attempts of delineating the
afpeft of the coaft impoffible.
- Having 1 1 ‘he methods o f difcovenng the harbour of
I B i it is time to infert the plan of the harbour ttfelf : This-
is reprefented in the annexed plate I where it may be feen M M
entrance is but about half a mile broad; the two points which-
form it, and which are faced with rocks that are almoft perpen
dicular, hear from each other S. E. and N. g g The harbour g
invironed on all fides, except’ to the, weftward, with high mountains
overhead with trees. The palfage into it is very fafe on either
fide of the rock that lies off the mouth o f I g M ^ j i g | J j
coming in and going out, left it to the eaftward The ground
without the harbour is gravel mixed with ftones, but within it is-
a foft mud : And it muft be remembered that m coming to an anchor
a good allowance fhould be'made for a large fwell, which-
frequently caufes a great fend of the fea; as likewrfe, for the^eb