mI S flronS terms exprefled their delire to harbour for prefent con-
venience, without any regard to future difadvantages.
In the evening, being about two leagues from the Ihore,
we founded, and had no ground with 108 fathom : the .var
nation of the needle, by azimuth, was 14° E. and by amplitude
150 3'. We made the beft of our way along the Ihore
with what wind we had, keeping at the diftance of between
two and three leagues. At noon, we were in latitude 440
47', having run only twelve leagues upon a N. E. 4 N. courfe,
during the laft four and twenty hours.
We continued to fleer along the Ihore, in the diredtion of
N.E. 4 E. till fix o’clock in the evening, when we brought to
Thurfday 15. for the night. At four in the morning, we flood in for the
land, and when the day broke we faw what appeared to be
an inlet; but upon a nearer approach proved to be only a
deep valley between two high lands: we proceeded therefore
in the fame courfe, keeping the Ihore at the diftance of
Friday 16. between four and five miles. At noon on the idth, the
northermoft point of land in fight bore N. 60 E. at the diftance
of ten miles; . and our latitude, by obfervarion, was
440 5', our longitude from Cape Weft 20 8' E. About two,
we paft the point which at noon had been diftant ten miles,
and found it to confift of high red cliffs, down which there
fell a cafcade of water in four fmall ftreams, and I therefore
gave it the name of C a s c a d e P o i n t . From this Point the
land trends firft N. 76 E. and afterwards more to the northward.
At the diftance of eight leagues from Cafcade Point,
in the direction of E.N.E. and at a little diftance from the
fhore, lies a fmall low illand, which bore from us S. by E. at
the diftance of about a league and a half.
At
At feven in the evening, we brought to, in thirty-three 1770-
fathom, with a fine fandy bottom; at ten we had fifty fathom, i-----— j
and at twelve wore in fixty-five fathom, having driven feveral
miles N. N. W. after our having brought to. At two in the Saturday 1.7..
morning, we had no ground with 140 fathom, by which it
appears that the foundings extend but a little way from the
fhore. About this time it fell calm; at eight, a breeze
fprung up at S. W. with which we fleered along the Ihore, in
the diredtion of N. E. by E. 4 E. at the diftance of about three
leagues. At fix in the evening, being about one league from
the Ihore, we had feventeen fathom; and at eight, being
about three leagues from the Ihore, we had forty-four; we
n o w Ihortened fail and brought to, having run ten leagues
N. E. by E. fince noon.
It was calm moft part of the night; but a-t ten in the S1"1^ ,s--
morning a light breeze fprung up at S. W. by W. when we
made fail again along the Ihore, N. E. by N. having a large
fwell from, the W. S. W. which had rifen in the night; at
noon, our latitude, by obfervation, was 43° 4.' S, and our
longitude from Cape Weft 40 12' E.. We obferved, that the
vallies as well as the mountains were this morning covered
with fnow, part of which.we fuppofed to have fallen during
the night, when we had rain. At fix in. the evening we
Ihortened fail, and. at ten brought to, at the diftance of about
live leagues from the Ihore, where we had 11 $ fathom. At
midnight, there being little wind, we made fail, and at
eight in the morning we flood to the N. E. clofe upon a wind MomUyvijj
till noon, when we tacked, being about three leagues- from
the land, and, by obfervation,. in latitude 420 8', and longitude
from Cape Weft 50 5' E.
We continued to Hand weftward till two in the morning, Tuefckiy 20s.
when we made a trip to the eaftward, and afterwards flood
weftward till noon, when; by our reckoning, we were in
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