Saturday 21.
cafes o f the moft prefling neceffity. He landed upoii a large
iftand on the north fide o f Snow Sound, and being almoft
perifhed with cold, the firft thing he did was to make a large
fire, with fome fmall trees which he found upon the fpot.
He then climbed one o f the rocky mountains, with Mr.
Pickerfgill, a midfhipman, and one o f the feamen, to take a
view o f the Streight, and the difmal regions that furround
it. He found the entrance o f the Sound to be full as broad
as feveral parts of the Streight, and to grow but very little
narrower, for feveral miles inland on the Terra del Fuego
fide. The country on the fouth o f it was ftill more dreary
and horrid than any he had yet feen: it confifted o f craggy
mountains, much higher than the clouds, that were altogether
naked from the bafe to the fummit, there not being
a Angle Ihrub, nor even a blade o f grafs to be feen upon
them ; nor were the vallies between them lefs defolate,
being intirely covered with deep beds of fnow, except here
and there where it had been waffied away, or converted into
ice, by the torrents which were precipitated from the fiffiires
and crags o f the mountain above, where the fnow had been
dilfolved; and even thefe vallies, in the patches that were
free from fnow, were as deftitute o f verdure as the rocks
between which they lay.
Marcn. _
Sunday 1. On Sunday the nrit o f March, at half an hour after four
o’clock in the morning, we faw the Swallow under fail, on
the north Ihore of Cape Quod. At feven we weighed, and
flood out of Butler’s bay, but it falling calm foon afterwards,
the boats were obliged to take the veffel in tow, having with
much difficulty kept d ea r o f the rocks: the paffage being
very narrow, we fent the boats, about noon, to feek for
anchorage on the north ffiore. At this time, Cape Notch
bore W. by N. i N. diftant between three and four leagues,
and Cape Quod E. i. N. diftant three leagues.
About
About three o clock in the afternoon, there being little >767-
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wind, we anchored, with the Swallow, under the north ffiore, t--- .—
in a fmall bay, where there is a high, fteep, rocky moun- S°n<iay "*
tain, the top o f which refembles the head of a lion, for
which reafon we called the bay Lion’s Cove. We had here
40 fathom, with deep water clofe to the ffiore, and at half a
cable’s length without the ffiip, no ground. We fent the
boats to the weftward in fearch o f anchoring places, and at
midnight they returned with an account that there was an
indifferent bay at the diftance o f about four miles, and that
Goodluck bay was three leagues to the weftward.
At half an hour after 1 2 the next day, the wind being Monday 2.
northerly, we made fail from Lion’s Cove, and at five anchored
in Good Luck bay, at the diftance o f about half a
cable’s length from the rocks, in 28 fathom water. A
rocky iftand at the weft extremity of the bay bore N. W. by
W. diftant about a cable’s length and a half, and a low
point, which makes the eaftern extremity o f the bay, bore
£. S. E. diftant about a mile. Between this point and the.
ffiip, there were many ffioals, and in the bottom o f the bay
.two rocks, the largeft o f which bore N. E. by N. the fmalleft
:N. by E. From thefe rocks, fhoals run out to the S. E.
which may be known by the weeds that are upon them; the
ffiip was within a cable’s length o f them: when ffie fwung
with her ftern in fhore, we had 16 fathom, with coral
ro c k ; when ffie fwung off, we had go fathom, with fandy
ground. Cape Notch bore from us W. by S. 4. W. diftant
about one league; and in the intermediate lpace there was
a large lagoon which we could not found, the wind blowing
too hard all the while we lay here. After we had moored the
fhip, we fent two boats to affift the Swallow, and one to look
out for anchorage beyond Cape Notch. The boats that were
fent to affift the Swallow, towed her into a fmall bay, where,
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