A V O Y A G E O F D I S C O V E R Y
1793. n. 20 -w.t Siftant a league, and a half, we relied lor the night, and the
. Augu- . next morning ftarted at an early hour.
Friday 9. Having advanced about a mile along the continental fhore, we again
quitted the main branch of the inlet, ',and entered a very narrow channel,
in fome places navigable only for boats and canoes. This extended
with little deviation n. 7 w., 7 miles; when it again communicated with
the branch of the inlet, making the'-weftern fhore two long narrow
iflands. The fouthernmoft is about half a league long. A fmall round
illand lies off the north-weft point of the moft northern, from whence we
again faw the remarkable rock refembling a Ihip under fail, before men-
tioned, lying n . 22 w., near a league diftant, having between it and the
i continental fhore feveral rocks and iflets: Its fituation and elevation, i f
acceffible, promifed to afford us an excellent viewlof the inlet; and its Angular
pyramidical appearance from this point of view invited^our curio-
fity. We reached this rock about feven, and found the main inlet, (whole
fides were compaft for 4 or 5 leagues, excepting in the appearance of
an opening lying n; 37 E., about a league from us) to take nearly a north
direftion, maintaining a width from two to three miles. On the bafe of
this lingular rock, which, from its referoblance to the Light Houfe rock
off Plymouth, I called the N ew EnnYSTONE,.we flopped to breakfaft,
and whilft we were thus engaged, three fmalP canoes, with about a
dozen of the natives, landed and approached qs unarmed, and with the
utmoft good humour accepted fuch prefents as» were offejed to them,
making figns, in return, that they had brought nothing fo difpofe of,
but inviting us in the moft preffmg manner to their habftaf((ms; where
they gave us to underhand, they had fifli fkins, and other things jn great
abundance, , to barter for our commodities ; amongft which, blue clpth
feemed to be the moft efteemed. They pointed out the fituation of tfieir
refidence to be on the eaftern fhore; but as that was behind usTand as
we had no time, for .unneceffaiy delays, their civil intreaties were declined,
and we departed from the new Eddyflone, which is certainly a very
remarkable rock. Its circumference, at its bafe is-about fifty yards,
Handing perpendicularly.on a furface of fine, dark coloured fund. It is
. ihtirely detached, at the diflance of two miles from the eaftern, and one
from