June" i^anc' s round us, fome of which lay out at fea as far as
' the eye could reach. The weftern inlet, which in the chart
n ay r‘ is diftinguifhed by the name of Broad Sound, We had now
all open ; at the entrance, it is at leaf! nine or ten leagues
wide: in it, and before it, lie feveral iflands, and probably
fhoals alfo; for our foundings were very irregular, varying
fuddenly from ten to four fathom. At noon, our latitude by
obfervation was 210 29' S.; a point of land which forms the
north weft entrance into Broad Sound, and which I have
named C a p e P a l m e r s t o n , lying in latitude 21° 30', longitude
qio° 54' W. bore W. by N. diftant three leagues. Our
latitude was 21" 27', our longitude 2100 57'. Between this
Cape and Cape Townlhend lies the bay which I have called
the B a y o f I n l e t s . We continued toftand to the N. W. and
N. W. by N. as the land lay, under an eafy fail, having a
boat ahead to found : at firft the foundings were very irregular,
from nine to four fathom; but afterwards they were
regular, from nine to eleven. At eight in the evening, being
about two leagues from the main land, we anchored in
eleven fathom, with a fandy bottom; and foon after we
found the tide fetting with a flow motion to the weft ward.
At one o’clock it was flack, or low-water; and at half arf
hour after two the Ihip tended to the eaftward, and rode fo
Saturday z. till fix in the morning, when the tide had rifen eleven feet.
We now got under fail, and flood away in the direction o f
the coaft, N. N. W. From what we had obferved of the tide
during the night, it is plain, that the flood came from the
SteWS; whereas the preceding day, and feveral days before,
it came from the S. E .; nor was this the firft, or even fecond
time that we had remarked the fame thing. At fun-rife this,
morning, we found the variation to be 6° 45' E.;. and in fleering
along the Shore, between the ifland and the main, at the
diftance of about two leagues from the main,, and three or
four.
four from the ifland, our foundings were regular from »770-
twelve to nine fathom; but about eleven o’clock in the fore- ■ J“”e‘
noon we were again embarrafled with fhoal water, having Sat“rday 2‘
at one time not more than three fathom; yet we got clear,
without calling anchor. At noon we were about two leagues
from the main, and four from the iflands without us. Our
latitude by obfervation was 20° 56', and a high promontory,
which I named C a p e H i l l s b o r o u g h , bore W. 4 N . diftant
feven miles. The land here is diverfified by mountains,
hills, plains, and valleys, and feems to be well clothed with
herbage and wood; the iflands which lie parallel to the
coaft, and from five to eight or nine miles diftant, are of va-i
rious height and extent; fcarcely any o f them are more than
five leagues in circumference, and many are not four miies:
befides this chain of iflands, which lies at a diftance from
the coaft, there are others much lefs, which lie under the
land, from which we faw fmoke riling in different places.
We continued to fleer along the Ihore at the diftance o f about
two leagues, with regular foundings from nine to ten fathom.
At fun-fet, the fartheft point of the main bore
N. 48 W. and to the northward of this lay fome high land,
which I took to be an ifland, and of which the north weft
point bore 41 W.; but not being fure of a paflage, I came
to an anchor about eight o’clock in the evening, in ten fathom
water, with a muddy bottom. About ten we had a
tide fetting to the northward, and at two it had fallen nine
feet; after this it hegan to rife, and the flood came from the
northward, in the direction of the iflands which lay out to
fea; a plain indication that there was no paflage to the N.W.
This however had not appeared at day-break, when we got Sunday
under fail and flood to the N.W. At eight o’clock in the
morning, we difcovered low land quite acrofs what we took
for an opening; which proved to be a bay, about five or fix
^ 8 leagues