ja/uARr we were able to examine them, they contained no other
minerals of any kind ; the whole Country being ufelefs,
and frightfully barren in every refpedi. We embarked
foon after with a load of feals, pinguins, and fhags, and
leaving this bay, which was named Pofleflion Bay, and is
fituated in s 4 ° *5* S.- and 37 ° 1 j® W. arrived fafe on board
before noon. During our ftay on fhore, we faw fome
fmall fragments of ice floating out to fea, and heard the
huge mafles in the fartheft part of the bay, crack very loud
from time to time. We continued' to coaft the land during
the two following days, and difeovered feveral bays and
head-lands upon it, which were fucceflively named Cumberland
Bay, Cape George, Royal Bay, Cape Charlotte, and
Sandwich Bay. The appearance of the land was always
nearly the fame ; its mountains towards the fouth were
exceffively high, and divided into innumerable ragged
points, like the flames in a raging fire. Mr. Hodges has
drawn a very mafterly view of part of this coaft, where the
horrors and' caricatures of nature are faithfully copied, in
that great ftyle which is peculiar to him, and which animates
all his views of favage countries. The drawings I
here mention are engraved, and' intended for captain Cook’s
account of thiswoyage.
On the 1 pth we reached the S. E. extremity of fouthem
Georgia, which we now difeovered to be an ifland, between
fifty and fixty leagues in length. A rock which was named
Cooper’s.
Cooper’ s Ifland, lies off the fouth end, in 54° 5 2' S. and j 4 2 5 T.
3 5 ° 50' W. We difeovered at the fame time, an ifland to
the fouth-eaftward, about fourteen leagues diftant, of which
we could not yet determine the fize.
We failed towards it on the 20th in the morning, after Friday io,
having coafted the fouth end of the Ifie of Georgia, till
we came in fight o f the Green Iflands, difeovered on the1
16th. The weather had for thefe four days paft, been
extremely fair, and favourable for the purpofe of exploring
this land; the winds had likewife been gentle, and the air
very mild. We had however, no fooner left the coaft, than
a ftrong gale, attended with fogs and rains fprung up,
which obliged us to take in all our topfails ; but it
fortunately was of a ftiort duration, for at midnight we
were becalmed. The land towards which we failed, was
fo much involved in fogs, that our feamen were uncertain
of the fituation, and continued to tack from time to time,
in order to avoid it. The fog continued during the 21ft,
and 22d, and obliged us to change our courfe very frequently.
On the 2 3d, the fame thick weather, being attended Monday ’»•
with a frefh breeze, we flood boldly on a tack, which all
on board were firmly perfuaded, would carry us directly
from the land. Inftead of that, about eleven o’clock,
lieutenant Clerke faw the breakers fcarce half a mile ahead,
and feveral fhags came to meet us, which feldom go to a
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