*77°- kept our courfe N. by W, along the coaft, at the diftance of
<__^ - 1 between three and four leagues, with an eafy fail all night,
Friday 8. having from twelve to fifteen fathom water,
Saturday 9. At fix o’clock in the morning, we were abreaft of fome
fmall iflands, which we called F r a n k l a n d ’s I s le s , and
which lie about two leagues diftant from the main land.
The moll diftant point in fight to the northward bore N. by
W. 4W. and we thought it was part of the main, but afterwards
found it to be an ifland of confiderable height, and
about four miles in circuit. Between this ifland and a point
on the main, from which it is diftant about two miles, I
pafled with the Ihip. At noon, we were in the middle of
the channel, and by obfervation in the latitude of 16° 57' S.
with twenty fathom water. The point on the main, of
which we were now abreaft, I called Ca p e G r a Ft o n : its latitude
is 16° 57'S. and longitude 214° 6' W. and the land here,
as well as the whole coaft for about twenty leagues to the
fouthward, is high, has a rocky furface, and is thinly
covered with wood: during the night we had feen feveral
fires, and about noon fome people. Having hauled round
Gape Grafton, we found the land trend away N. W. by W..
and three miles to the weftward of the Cape we found a bay,
in which we anchored about two miles from the fhore, in
four fathom water with an ouzey bottom. The eaft point
of the bay bore S. 74 E. the weft point S/83 W. and a low,
green, woody ifland, which lies in the offing, N. 35 E. This,
ifland, which lies N. by E. i E diftant three or four leagues
from Cape Grafton, is called in the chart G reen I s l an d..
As foon as the Ihip was brought to an anchor, I went
afhore, .accompanied by Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander. As
my principal view was to procure fome frelh water, and as
the bottom o f the bay was low land covered with mangroves,
where
where it was not probable frelh water was to be found, I
went out towards the Cape, and found two fmall ftreams,
which however were rendered very difficult of aceefs by the
furf and rocks upon the fhore: I faw al’fo, as I came round
the Cape, a fmall ftream of water run over the beach, in a
fandy cove, but I did not go in with the boat, becaufe I faw
that it would not be eafy to.land. When we got afhore, we
found the country every where rifing into fteep rocky hills,
and as no frefh water could conveniently be procured, I was
unwilling to lofe time by going in fearch of lower land elfe-
where: we therefore'made the heft of our way back to th'e ffiip,
and about midnight we weighed and flood to the N. W. hav*
ing'but little wind, with fome fhowers of rain. At four in the Sunday 10.
morning, the breeze frefhened at S. by E. and the weather
became fair: we continued fleering N N. W. p W. as the land
lay, at about three leagues diftance, with teh, twelve, and
fourteen fathom water. At teh, we hahled off nofth, in order
to get without a fmall low ifland, which lay at about two
leagues diftance from the main, and great part of which at
this time, it being high water, was overflowed: about three
leagues to the north weft of this ifland, clofe under the main
land, is another ifland, the land of which rifes to a greater
height, and which at noon bore from us N. 55 W. diftant
feven or eight miles. At this time, our latitude was 16° 20'S.
Cape Grafton bore S. 29 E. diftant forty miles, and the north-
ermoft point of land in fight N. 20 W. ; our depth of water
was fifteen fathom. Between this point and Cape Grafton,
the fhore forms a large, but not a .very deep bay, which
being difcovered on Trinity Sunday, I called T r in i t y B a y .
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Saturday 9.
C H A P .