September 59° Weft. Two fmall iflots lay without this laft diredbion,
'---- ----< diftant from us four or five miles; fome others lay between
us and the fhore, and to the Eaft, where they feemed to be
connected by reefs, in which appeared fome openings from
fpace to fpace. The country was mountainous, and had much
the fame afpedt as about Balade. On one of the weftern fmall
ifles was an elevation like a tower; and, over a low neck of
land within the ifle, were feen many other elevations re-
fembling the mails o f a fleet o f Ihips.
Wether, n. Next day at fun-rife, after having flood off all night with
a light breeze at S. E., we found ourfelves about fix leagues
from the coaft; and in this fituation we were kept by a calm
till ten in the evening, when we got a faint land breeze at
S. W., with which we fleered S. E. all night.
Thurflay 22. On the 2ad at fun-rife, the land was clouded, but it was
not long before the clouds went off, and we found, by our
land-marks, that we had made a good advance. At ten
o’clock, the land-breeze being fucceeded by a fea-breeze at
E. by S., this enabled us to Hand in for the land, which at
noon extended from N. 78° Weft, to S. 3 1J Eaft, round by the
South. In this laft direftion the coaft feemed to trend more
to the South in a lofty promontory, which, on account o f the
day, received the name of Cape Coronation. Latitude 220 2',
longitude 167° 7'4 Eaft. Some breakers lay between us and
the fhore, and probably they were connected with thofe we
had feen before.
TiHay 23. During the night we had advanced about two leagues to
S. E.; and at day-hreak on the 23d, an elevated point appeared
in fight beyond Cape Coronation, bearing S. 23° Eaft.
It proved to be the S. E. extremity o f the coaft, and obtained
the name of Queen Charlotte's Foreland. Latitude 220 16' S,,
longitude
longitude 167° 14' Eaft. About noon having got a breeze
from the N. E., we flood to S. S. E., and, as we drew towards
Cape Coronation, faw in a valley to the South of it, a vaft
number of thofe elevated objedls before mentioned ; and
fome low land under the Foreland, was wholly covered with
them. We could not agree in our opinions of what they were.
I fuppofe them to be a Angular fort of trees, beyng too numej
rous to refemble any thing elfe; and a great deal of fmoke
kept riling all the day, from amongft thofe near the Cape.
Some on board were of opinion that this was the fmoke of
fome internal and perpetual fire. My reprefenting to them
that there was no fmoke here in the morning, would have
been of no avail, had not this eternal fire gone out before
night, and no more fmoke been feen after. They were
ftill more pofitive, that the elevations were pillars of Bafaltes,
like thofe which eompofe the Giant’s Caufeway in Ireland.
At fun-fet, the wind veering round to the South, we tacked
and flood off, it not being fafe to approach the fhore in the
dark. At day-break we flood in again, with a faint land-
breeze between E. S. E. and S. S. E. At noon obferved in
latitude 210 59' 30", Cape Coronation bearing Weft foutherly,
diftant feven leagues, and the Foreland S. 38° Weft. As we
advanced to S. S. W., the coaft beyond the Foreland began to
appear in fight ; and, at- fun-fet, we difcovered a low ifland
lying S. S. E-., about feven miles from the Foreland. It was
one of thofe which are generally furrounded with fhoals and
breakers. At the fame time a round hill was feen bearing
S. 24° Eaft, twelve leagues diftant. During night having had
variable light winds, we advanced but little either way.
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September.
Friday 23.
Saturday 24*
On the 2yth, about ten o?clock A. M'., having got a fair breeze Sun3a 2
at E. S. E., we flood to S. S.. W., in hopes of getting round
the.