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entrance. However, I shall give some directions for 

 this navigation. In coming in at the south entrance 

 keep the south shore aboard, until you approach the 

 west end of Indian Island, which you will know not 

 only by its apparent, but real nearness to the shore. 

 From this situation, it will appear as a point dividing 

 the bay into two arms. Leave this isle on your star- 

 board side, and continue your course up the bay, 

 which is E. by N. lN. without turning either to the 

 right or left. When you are abreast, or above the 

 east end of this isle, you will find the bay of a consider- 

 able breadth ; and, higher up, to be contracted by 

 two projecting points. Three miles above the one, 

 on the north side, and abreast of two small isles, is 

 the passage out to sea, or to the north entrance ; and 

 this lies nearly in the direction of N. by W. and 

 S. by E. 



The north entrance lies in the latitude of 45 38' 

 south, and five leagues to the north of Five Fingers' 

 Point. To make this entrance plain, it will be ne- 

 cessary to approach the shore within a few miles ; as 

 all the land within, and on each side, is of consider- 

 able height. Its situation may, however, be known 

 at a greater distance ; as it lies under the first craggy 

 mountains which rise to the north of the land of Five 

 Fingers' Point. The southernmost of these mountains 

 is remarkable ; having at its summit two small hil- 

 locks. When this mountain bears S. S. E. you will 

 be before the entrance, on the south side of which 

 are several isles. The westernmost and outermost is 

 the most considerable, both for height and circuit ; 

 and this I have called Break-sea Isle, because it 

 effectually covers this entrance from the violence of 

 the S. W. swell, which the other entrance is so much 

 .exposed to. In sailing in you leave this isle, as well 

 as all the others, to the south. The best anchorage 

 is in the first or north arm, which is on the larboard 

 hand going in, either in one of the coves, or behind 

 the isles that lie under the S. E. shore* 



