shore ; Cape Danger bearing N. N. W. distant ten or twelve
miles.
« 8th. At half past twelve J5. M. bore away from the land»
the wind being W. S. W. At one, having got sufficient offing,
made sail to the. eastward. At eight P. M. Câpe Albany Ot-
way bearing W. eighteen or twenty miles, we made.a very high
arid lofty -Gape-eovered with, trees to the water’s edge, as is all
the country round it. From this Cape the land breaks short
round to the northward, when I lost it. We had now a fair
wind, and might have done a great deal during th e might, but
I had my doubts whether this land, which fell off to .the north*
ward, should mot have been followed, arid kept .on board ; as
from a small chart given to me by.Sir Joseph Banks, I found
that as far as the coast had been surveyed, the land trained off
to the northward, in the same form nearly as it did here from
Cape Patton, with this difference, tha t the Cape I allude to on
the chart had several islands lying off from it. Neither did the
latitude exactly correspond; and the land,which it laid down,
running tonthe northward, was low and bushy, whereas that
which I saw was high wrth large forests .of ferees, and ao islands
sear i t . T h e re fo re chose the middle mad ; made mmg sail,
and ran sixty miles E . judging, if it was a Bay, I should see the
eastern extremity of it. At day-light, however, we could see
nothing anywhere from the mast-head but die looming of the
land we had left. We now bore up and ran N. by W .a n d at
six, we saw the land again ahead, forming a very deep Bay,
which I could not see the bottom of from the mast-head.* At
eight, the land was observed bearings from us E. S. E. -extend*
* If such a deep Bap a» thi» esistej it ftwours ÿ uM êtu â N«w South Wal«s being
insulated by a Mediterranean Sea. However, this the Lady Nelson must determine in-the
Voyage she is" now gone upon. T .’G. K.
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ing farther to the southward than 1 cbriM see. Being now certain
©if our routfl,1 hauled rip E. S. E. and named this Bay after
Governor King. I t is one o f the longest we have y et met with;
Cape Albany^ Otway forms the westernmost, and the South Cape
the easternmost head-lands, the distance of about 120 miles
due E. S. E. At noon it fell calm, the sun very sultry. Observed
in 3$f 3®: S. mercury at 73° and 74°.
| “ pth, P. M. light airs inclining to» calm. At four P. M, We
saw several islands bearing EL B. E. th& main land seemed to
have an opening in it. to.the northward of them, which we stood
in: far, but I’ found i t whs another Bay with low land. This
Bay runs in nearly E. I named the northernmost Cape after
my friend John Liptrap, Esq. of London. The main fend now
shewed extending a. considerable way to the southward, with several
islands off the Cape. Judging this was the- point offend
we; feoked fo® tf om tlfe cetom of the water, we sounded, and
had: fifty fathoms, with fine sand, South Cape distant riihe cr ten
nrifesi. The land abreasfe of the ship appearing td be at no great
distance off, and i t being quite eafen, I grit the boats out, arid
sent the launch ahead to tow. Thinking 1 should have the pleasure,
of setting my foot on this fine country, I set off in tie
with two hands» ordering the vessel to tow in after me; arid
should a breeze spring up to-get t i e fennch? in, an d stand after
me in for the* Bay. At noon I soondfed again Tri fohtyi-orier
fathoms». sand and shells. The weather still ealrir an d fiazyv
We. prilled in shore fo r some islands-lying Off from the main, at
the western» side of the- South Cape, making for the largest of
them, which appeared to be the mest feriife, on-it I meant to
have: sowed some seeds, which I took with me» should I fee able
toifend. The distance I eeoM not have beSeved was so great
riait, proved to b e ; at least, twelve nfilesfrom where we1 quitted
the vessel, which we lost sight of before getting'neay the1 shore.
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