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what happened-from the day I saw the. landf till [ came to Wilson’s
Promontory; .to which I shall add: soine^margipal notes
made.,by the
J beg however previously to observe, that T hay e,strong,
piciong'of, land;-lying teethe E. ofiNew Holland from the nup-r
ber of geals ;and the fly which, camefon board, ap -already mentioned.
I remark, tin#, as from the run I made after,.until I
made;thelapd,was lifi miles by the dbg i rit isg true had for
some days easterly winds which naught have'blown.the. insect
off, b u t the distance_isr so. great that I doubt it much,.
Remarks, made on board the Lady 'Nelson, coming in with the.Rand,
o f New Holland.
. “ . December, 3d, at day-light made all possible sailed judging
myself to, be in the latitude of 38° S.* At,eig«ht- Aj+JNfosaw^thg
land from N. to,E. N. E . the part! that was, right-ahead j&ppcaring
like, unconnected islands,, being four in.number, ,yy,hh?h;;pn
our nearer, approach; turned out to. bp. two .Capes anti two-high
mountains a considerable, way in shore.-. - One of. them jja^B^vgy ■
like,the Table Hill at the Cape of Good Hope, the other*|tanaf
farther in the country. Both are covered with.large-trees,’ as is
.glso the: land which is low and flat, as for as the.ey^ean reach.
I named.the.first of,these mountains after. Captain Schank, and
the other Gambier’s Mountain..; The first Cap^jlr,
thumberland, after his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, and
another smaller but very conspicuous ju t of the; land, 'vfrhich we
plainly,saw when abreast of Cape Northumberland, I named
Cape Banks. When, the former Cape bears N. W.:by W. distant
eight or nine miles,. Schank’s l^ountain bearing 'N. and Gam-
bier’s N. by E . ; from the vessel Schank’s Mountain loses its
Longitude worked back 141° *p' E,
table