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DecemSer Hemifphere, Cape’ St. Louis *, terminated in a perpendicu-
'— *---- ' lar rock of a eonfiderable height; and the right one (near
which is a detached rock) in a high indented point f.
From this point the coalt feemed to turn ihort round to
the Southward; for we could fee no land to the Weft ward
of the direction in which it now bore to us, but the iflands
we had obferved in the morning ; the moft Southerly J of
them lying nearly Weft from the point, about two or three
leagues diftant.
About the middle of the land there appeared to be an*
inlet, for which we fleered ; but, on approaching, found it
was only a bending in the coaft, and therefore bore up, to
go round Cape St. Louis §. Soon after, land opened off the
* Hitherto, we have only had occailon to fupply defe&s* owing to Captain CookV
entire ignorance o f Kerguelen’s fécond, voyage in 1 7 73 ; we muft now correél errors*,
owing to his very limited- knowledge o f the operations o f the firft voyage in 1772.
T h e Chart o f the Southern Hemifphere, his only guide, having, given him, as he tells
us, the name of Cape St. Louis (or Cape Louis) as the moft Northerly promontory
then feen by the French ; and his own obfervations now fatisfying him that
no part of the main land ftretched farther North than the left extreme now before him
from.this fuppofed fimilarity of iituation, he judged that his own perpendicular rifck muft
be the Cape Louis o f the firft difcoverers. By looking upon our Chart, we fhall find
Cape Louis lying upon a very different part of the coaft ; and by comparing this Chart
with that lately publiihed by Kerguelen,, it will appear, in the cleareft manner, that the:
Northern point now defcribed by Captain Cook, is the very fame to which the French,
have given the name of Cape Francois.
f This right extreme of the coaft^ as it now ihewed itfelf to Captain Cook,, feems--
to be what is reprefented on Kerguelen’s Chart under the name of Cape. Aubert. I t
may be proper to obferve here, that all that extent of coaft lying between Cape.
Louis and-Cape François, o f which the French faw very little during their firft vifit
in 1772, and may. be called the North Weft fide of this land, they had it in their power
to trace the pofition of in 1773, and have affigned names to fome o f its bays,, rivers*,
and promontories, upon their Chart.
% Kerguelen’s Iile de Clugny*.
§ Cap.e François, as already obferved.,
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