time we had a great fea from the fouthward, which broke
upon them very high. We flood on N. N. E. till eight
o’clock, when having paired the breakers, and deepened our
water to fifty-two fathom, we brought to till midnight, when
Thui-fday ,7. we made fail again to the N. N. E. At four in the morning,
we had 135 fathom, and when the day broke, I perceived
that during the night I had got much farther northward, and
from the fhore, than I expected from the courfe we fleered,
for we were diftant at leaft feven leagues I therefore hauled
in N. W. by W. with a frelh gale at S. S. Wi. The land that
was far.theft to the north the night before, now bore S. S. W;
diftant fix:leagues, and I gave it the name of Cape More-
ton,, it being the north point of Moreton’s Bay: its latitude is
2.6“: 56', and its: longitude is 206" 28'. Trdm Cape Moreton
the land trends away weft, farther than can be feen, for
there, is a fmall fpace, where at this time no land is vifible,
and Ibme on board having alfo obferved that the fea looked
paler than ufual, were of opinion that the bottom of More-
ton’s Bay opened into a river: we had here thirty-four fathom
water; and a fine fandy bottom : this alone would have
produced the change that had been obferved in the colour of
the water; and it was by no means neceflary to fuppofe a
river to account for the land at the bottom of the Bay not
being, vifible, for fuppofing the land there to be as low as we
knew it to be in a hundred other parts of the coaft, it would
have been lmpoflible to fee it from the ftation of the fhip;
however; if any future navigator Ihould be difpofed to determine
the queftion, whether there is: or is not a river in
this place, which the wind would not permit us to do, the
fituation may always be found by three hills which lie to the
northward of it, in the latitude of 26’° 53'. Thefe hillsJie
but a little way inland, and not far from each other • they
are remarkable for the Angular form of their elevation;
which
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which very much refembles a, glafs-Iioufe, and for which 1770.
reafon I called them the G lass Houses: the northermoft of ; .. . ■
the three is the higheft and largeft: there afe alfo feveral Thurfday ‘7-
other peaked hills inland to the northward of thefe, but they
are not nearly fo remarkable. At noon, our latitude was, by
obfervation, 26° 28' S. Which was ten miles to the northward
of the log, a circtimftance which had never before happened
upon this coaft; our longitude Was 206° 46'. At this time
we were between two and three leagues from the land, and
had twenty-four fathom water. A low blufF point, which
was the fouth head of- a fandy bay, bore N. .62 W. diftant
three leagues, and the northermoft point of land in fight
bore N. ^ E. This day we faw fmoke in feveral places, and
fome at a confiderable diftance inland.
In fleering along the Ihore at the diftance of two leagues,
our foundings were from twenty-four to thirty-two fathom,
with a fandy bottom. At fix in the evening, the northermoft
point of land bore N.-J.W. diftant four leagues ; at ten
it bore N. W. by W. 7 W, and as we had feen no land to the
northward of it, we brought to, not well knowing which
way to fleer.
At two in the morning, however, we made fail with the FrMay l3,
wind at S. W. and at day-light, we faw the land extending as
far as N. iE . the point we had fet the night before bore S. W.
by W. diftant between three and four leagues. It lies in latitude
250 y8', longitude 206°,48' W.: the land within it is of
a moderate and equal height, but the point itfelf is fo unequal,
that it looks like two fmall iflands lying under the
land, for which reafon I gave it the name of Double Islanu
Po in t j it may alfo be known by the white cliffs on the north
fide of it. Here the land trends to the N. W. and forms a
large open bay, the bottom of which is fo low a flat that
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