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is a detached rock) in a high indented point.* From 

 this point the coast seemed to turn short round to the 

 southward; for we could see no land to the westward 

 of the direction in which it now bore to us, but the 

 islands we had observed in the morning; the most 

 southerly t of them lying nearly W. from the point, 

 about two or three leagues distant. 



About the middle of the land there appeared to be 

 an inlet, for which we steered ; but, on approaching, 

 found it was only a bending on the coast, and there- 

 fore bore up, to go round Cape St. Louis, t Soon 

 after, land opened off the Cape, in the direction of 

 S. 53 E., and appeared to be a point at a consider- 

 able distance ; for the trending of the coast from the 

 Cape was more southerly. We also saw several 

 rocks and islands to the eastward of the above direc- 

 tions, the most distant of which was about seven 

 leagues from the Cape, bearing S. 88 E. 



We had no sooner got off the Cape, than we ob- 

 served the coast, to the southward, to be much in- 

 dented by projecting points and bays ; so that we now 

 made sure of soon finding a good harbour. Accord- 

 ingly, we had not run a mile farther, before we dis- 

 covered one behind the Cape, into which we began 

 to ply ; but after making one board, it fell calm, and 

 we anchored at the entrance, in forty-five fathoms 



* This right extreme of the coast, as it now showed itself to 

 Captain Cook, seems to be what is represented on Kerguelen's 

 chart under the name of Cape Aubert. It may be proper to 

 observe here, that all that extent of coast lying between Cape 

 Louis and Cape Francois, of which the French saw very little dur- 

 ing their first visit in 1772, and may be called the N. W. side of 

 this land, they had it in their power to trace the position of in 1773, 

 and have assigned names to some of its bays, rivers, and promon- 

 tories, upon their chart. 



f Kerguelen's Isle de Clugny. 



| Cape Francois, as already observed. 



The observations of the French, round Cape Francois, remark- 

 ably coincide with Captain Cook's in this paragraph; and the rocks 

 and islands here mentioned by him, also appear upon their chart. 



