'773- a furf that the fand cannot lie on the fliore. We faw no
. . - ’ i inhabitants here.
Wednof. io. The morning on the roth of March being calm, the fliip
then about four miles from the land, fent the great cutter
on fliore with the fecond lieutenant, to find if there was any
harbour or good bay. Soon after, it beginning to blow
very hard, made the fignal for the boat to return, feveral
times, but they did not fee or hear any thing of i t ; the fliip
then three or four leagues off, that we could not fee any
thing of the boat, which gave us great uneafinefs, as there
was a very great fea. At half paft one P. M. to our great
fatisfa&ion, the boat returned on board fafe. They landed,
but with much difficulty, and faw feveral places where the
Indians had been, and one they lately had left, where they
had a fire, with a great number of pearl efcallop fhells
round it, which ffiells they brought on board, with fome
burnt flicks and green boughs. There was a path from
this place, through the woods, which in all probability
leads to their habitations; but, by reafon of the weather,
had not time to purfue it. The foil feems to be very rich ;
the country well clothed with wood, particularly on the
lee fide of the hills ; plenty of water which falls from the
rocks in beautiful cafcades for two or three hundred feet
perpendicular into the fea; but they did not fee the leaft
fign of any place to anchor in with fafety. Hoifted in the
boat, and made fail for Frederick Henry Bay. From noon to
three P. M. running along fliore E. by N. at which time we
were abreaft of the wefternmoft point of a very deep bay
called by Tafman, Stormy Bay. From the Weft to the Eaft
point of this bay there are feveral fmall iflands, and black
rocks which we called the Fryars. While croffing this bay
6 I we
we had very heavy fqualls and thick weather; at times, >773.
when it cleared up, I faw feveral fires in the bottom of the c_
bay, which is near two or three leagues deep, and has, I Wetlnefl 10‘
doubt not, good places for anchoring, but the weather being
fo bad, did not think it fafe to ftand into it. From the
Fryars the land trenches away about N. by E. four leagues :
We had fmooth water, and kept in fliore, having regular
foundings from twenty to fifteen fathoms water. At half
paft fix we hauled round a high bluff point, the rocks
whereof were like fo many fluted pillars, and had ten
fathoms water, fine fand, within half a mile of the fliore.
At feven, being abreaft of a fine bay, and having little
wind, we came to, with the fmall bower, in twenty-four
fathoms, fandy bottom. Juft after we anchored, being a
fine clear evening, had a good obfervation of the ftar An-
tares and the moon, which gave the longitude of 1470 34'
Eaft, being in the latitude of 430 20' South. We firft took
this bay to be that which Tafman called Frederick Henry
Bay ; but afterwards found that his is laid down five leagues
to the northward of this.
At day-break the next morning, I fent the mafter in fliore ,,
to found the bay, and to find out a watering-place; at eight
he returned, having found a moft excellent harbour, clear
ground from fide to fide, from eighteen to five fathom water
all over the bay, gradually decreafing as you go in fhore.
We weighed and turned up into the bay; ttie wind being
wefterly, and very little of it, which baffled us much in
getting in. At feven o’clock in the evening, we anchored1
in feven fathoms water, with the fmall bower, and moored’
with the coafting anchor to the weftward, the North point
of the bay N. N. E. 4 E. (which we take to be Tafman’s
Head),.