1787. manner ; indeed they could fcarcely be reftrained front thefe pro-
i. ceedings without violence; but this it was neither our intereft or
inclination to offer, if it could poffibly be avoided. Our people
were never fent on fhore without being well armed ; and luckily,
- the fight of a few mufquets kept them in a kind of awe, as they had
frequently feen Captain Dixon lhoot birds, which had given them
an idea of the fatal effefts of fire-arms ; fo that our bufinefs on
fhore was compleated without coming to an open quarrel with
.thefe people
In my next I may, perhaps, give thee fome further account of
.this place, which Captain Dixon diftinguifhed by the name of Norfolk
Sound, in honour of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, and I
fincerely with, that what little I have already faid, refpedting
our fuccefs, may give thee half the pleafure it has given to thine
-afluredly,
'Norfolk Soond,£
22djune. 3
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L E T T E R XXXIII.
NO R F O L K Sound, at leaft that part where we lay at anchor,
is fituated in 57 deg. 3 min. North latitude; and 135
deg. 36 min. Weft longitude. In that fituation, Mount Edgecombe
bore from us Weft by South, a very few miles diftant. It
is a very extenfive place, but how far it ftretches to the Northward,
I cannot fay; though I have no doubt of there being a paflage
2 ' through