i?70. At day-break, we fleered north, for the northermoft land
_1 in fight. At noon, we were four leagues from the fliorc,
Saturday 12. an(j ^ 0j}fervation, in latitude 31° 18' S., which was fifteen
miles to the fouthward of that given by the log; our longitude
296° 58 W. In the afternoon, we flood in for the land,
where we faw fmoke in feveral places, till fix in the evening,
when, being within three or four miles of it, and in
^twenty-four fathom of water, we flood off with a frefh
breeze at N. and N. N. W, till midnight, when we had 118
fathom, at the diftance of eight leagues from the land, and
Sunday 13. then tacked. At three in the morning, the wind veered to
the weftward, when we tacked and flood to the northward.
At noon, our latitude, by obfervation, was 300 43' S., and
our longitude 206° 45'W. At this time we were between
three and four leagues from the fhore, the northermoft part
of which bore from us N. 13 W. and a point, or head land,
on which we faw fires that produced a great quantity of
fmoke, bore W. diftant four leagues. To this Point I gave
the name of Smokey Cape: it is of a confiderable height,
and over the pitch of the Point is a round hillock; within it
are two others, much higher and larger, and within them
the land is very low. Our latitude was 309 S., longitude
ao6° 54' W.: this day the obferved latitude was only five
miles fouth of the log. We faw fmoke in feveral parts along
the coaft, befides that feen upon Smokey Cape.
In the afternoon, the wind being at N. E. we flood off and
on, and at three or four miles diftance from the fhore had
thirty fathom water: the wind afterwards coming crofs off
land, we flood to the northward, having from thirty to
twenty-one fathom, at the diftance of four or five miles from
the fhore.
Monday 14. At five in the morning, the wind veered to the north, arid
blew frefh, attended with fqualls: at eight, it began to thum
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der and rain, and in about an hour it fell calm, which gave
us an opportunity to found, and We had eighty-fix fathom at
between four and five leagues from the fhore: foon after
this we had a gale from the fouthward, with which we
fleered N. by W. for the northermoft land in fight. At noon',
we were about four leagues from the fhore, and by obfervation,
in latitude 3b0' 23', which Was nine miles to the
fouthward of our reckoning, longitude .206^ 39'W. Some
lands near the fhore, of a confiderable height, bore W.
Monday 14.
As we advanced to the northward, from Botany Bay, the -
land, gradually increafed in height, fo that in this latitude it
may be called a hilly country. Between this latitude and
the Bay, it exhibits a pleafing variety of ridges, hills, vallies,
and plains, all clothed1 with wood, of the fame appearance
with that which has been particularly deferibed: the land
near the fhore is in general low and fandy, except the points’
which are rocky, and over many of them are high hills,
which, at their firft riling out of the water, have the appearance
of iflands. In the afternoon, we had fome fmall rocky
iflands between us and the land, the fouthermoft of which
lies in latitude 30° 10', and the northermoft in 290 38', and
fomewhat more than two leagues from the land: about two
miles without the northermoft ifland we had thirty-three fathom
water. Having the advantage of a moon, we fleered
along the fhore all night,'in the diredtion of N. and N. by E.
keeping at the diftance of about three leagues from the land,
and having from twenty to twenty-five fathom water. As
foon as it was light, having a frefh gale, we made all the
fail we could, and at nine o’clock in the morning, being Tueflayi;.
about a league from the fhore, we difeovered fmoke in
many places, and having recourfe to our glafies, we faw
about twenty of the natives, who had each a large bundle
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