you bearing Eaft. But the chart will be a fufficient guidet
not only to fail into this, but into all the other anchoring-
places, as well as to fail quite through, from the South to
the North entrance. However, I flxall give fome directions
for this navigation. In coming in at the South entrance,
keep the South fhor.e aboard, until you approach the Weft
end of Indian Ifland, which you will know not only by its
apparent, but real nearnefs to the Ihore. From this flotation,
it will appear as a point dividing the bay into two arms.
Leave this iLLe .on your {larboard fide, and continue your
courfe up the bay, which is E. by N. fN., without turning
either to the right or left. When you are abreaft, or above
the Eaft end of this ifle, you will find the bay of a confider-
able breadth ; and, higher up, to be contracted by two projecting
points. Three miles above the one, on the North
fide, and abreaft of two fmall ifles, is the paflage out to
fea, or to the North entrance; and this lies nearly in the
direction of N. by W. and S. by E.
The North entrance lies in the latitude of 45°38' South, and
five leagues to the North of Five Fingers Point. To make
this entrance plain, it will be necefiary to approach the Ihore
within a few miles; .as all the land within, and on each fide,
is of eonfiderable height. Its fituation may, however, be
known at a greater diftance; as it lies under the firft craggy
mountains which rife to the North of the land of Five Fingers
Point. The fouthernmoft of thefe mountains is remarkable;
having at its fummit two fmall hillocks. When this mountain
bears S. S. E., you will be before the entrance, on the
South fide of which are feveral ifles. The wefternmoft and
outermoft is the moft eonfiderable, both for height and circuit
; and this I have called Break-fea Ifle, becaufe it effeCtually
covers this entrance from the violence of the S. W.
fwell, which the other entrance is fo much expofed to. In
failing in, you leave this ifle, as well as all the others, to the
South. The beft anchorage is in the firft or North arm,
which is on the larboard hand going in, either in one of the
coves, or behind the ifles that lie under the S. E. ihore.
The country is exceedingly mountainous; not only about
Dufky Bay, but through all the fouthern part of this weftern
eoaft of Tavai Poenammoo. A profpeft more rude and
.craggy is rarely to be met with; for inland appears nothing
but the fummits of mountains of a ftupendous
height, and confifting of rocks that are totally barren and
naked, except where they are covered with friow. But the-
land bordering on the fea-coaft, and all the iflands, ate
thickly clothed with wood, almoft down to the water’s-
edge. The trees are of various kinds, fuch as are common
to other parts of this country, and are fit for the fhipwright,.
houfe-carpenter, cabinet-maker, and many other ufes. Except
in the river Thames, I have not feen finer timber in;
all New Zealand: both here and in that river, the moft con-
fiderable for fize is the Spruce tree, as we called it from the
fimilarity of its foliage to the American Spruce, though the
wood is more ponderous and bears a greater refemblance
to the Pitch pine. Many of thefe trees are from fix to eight
and ten feet in girt, and from fixty to eighty or one hundred:
feet in length ; large enough to make a main-maft for a
fifty gun fhip.
Here are, as well as in all other parts of New Zealand,
a great number of aromatic trees and fhrubs, moft of the
myrtle kind; but amidft all this variety we met with none
which bore fruit fit to eat, 2
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