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Frederick Henry Bay ; but afterwards found that his 

 is laid down five leagues to the northward of this. 



At day-break the next morning, 1 sent the master 

 in shore to sound the bay, and to find out a watering 

 place ; at eight he returned, having found a most ex- 

 cellent harbour, clear ground from side to side, from 

 eighteen to five fathom water all over the bay, gra- 

 dually decreasing as you go in shore. We weighed 

 and turned up into the bay ; the wind being westerly, 

 and very little of it, which baffled us much in getting 

 in. At seven o'clock in the evening, we anchored in 

 seven fathoms water, with the small bower, and 

 moored with the coasting anchor to the westward, 

 the north point of the bay N. N. E. iE. (which we 

 take to be Tasman's Head,) and the easternmost point 

 (which we named Penguin Island, from a curious one 

 we caught there) N. E. by E. f E. the watering place 

 W. -i-N. about one mile from the shore on each side ; 

 Maria's Island, which is about five or six leagues off, 

 shut in with both points ; so that you are quite land- 

 locked in a most spacious harbour. 



We lay here five days, which time was employed in 

 wooding and watering (which is easily got), and over- 

 hauling the rigging. We found the country very 

 pleasant ; the soil a black, rich, though thin one ; the 

 sides of the hills covered with large trees, and very 

 thick, growing to a great height before they branch 

 off. They are, all of them, of the Evergreen kind, 

 different from any I ever saw ; the wood is very brit- 

 tle and easily split ; there is very little variety of 

 sorts, having seen but two. The leaves of one are 

 long and narrow ; and the seed (of which I got a 

 few) is in the shape of a button, and has a very agree- 

 able smell. The leaves of the other are like the bay, 

 and it has a seed like the white thorn, with an agree- 

 able spicy taste and smell. Out of the trees we cut 

 down for fire-wood, there issued some gum, which 

 the surgeon called gumlac. The trees are mostly 

 burnt, or scorched near the ground, occasioned by 



