C H A P . V.
Departure from Endeavour R iver; a particular Defcrip-
tion o f the Harbour there, in which the Ship was refitted,
the adjacent Country, and feverallfiands near the Coafi:
The Range from Endeavour River to the Northern E xtremity
of the Country, and the Dangers o f that N avigation.
T O the harbour which we had now left, I gave the name ,770.
of Endeavour River. It is only a fmall bar harbour, , A“gult-
or creek, which runs in a winding channel three or four Saturda>' +•
leagues inland, and at the head o f which there is a fmall
brook of frefh water: there is not depth of water; for Ihip-
ping above a mile within the bar, and at this diftance only
on the north fide, where the bank is fo fteep for near a
quarter of a mile, that a Ihip may lie afloat at low water, fo
near the flaore as to reach it with a ftage, and the fituation is
extremely convenient for heaving down; but at low water,
the depth upon the bar is not more than nine or ten feet, nor
more than feventeen or eighteen at the height of the tide;
the difference between high and low water, at fpring tides,,
being about nine feet. At the new and full of the moon it
is high water between nine and ten o’clock: it mull alio be
remembered, that this part o f the coaft is fo barricaded with
Ihoals, as to make the harbour Hill more difficult of accefs •
the fafefi approach is from thq fouthward, keeping the main
land clofe upon the board'all the way. Its/fituation may
always lie found by the latitude, which has been very accu-
yph. HI. A a rately