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south side of Cape Cumberland, a bay, running 

 in three leagues to the westward. It is formed by 

 this Cape to the N., and by a promontory to the S., 

 which I named Point Pringle, after my good friend 

 Sir John Pringle, President of the Royal Society. 

 The bottom of this bay was called Cumberland Bay; 

 and it seemed to be disjoined from the sea, which 

 washes the N. W. coast of this country, by a narrow 

 neck of land. Appearances, at least, favoured such 

 a conjecture. 



To the southward of Point Pringle, the coast is 

 formed into a fifth bay; of which this point is the 

 northern extreme ; and from it, to the southern 

 extreme, is about four miles in the direction of 

 S. S. E. i- E. In this bay, which obtained the name of 

 White Bay, on account of some white spots of land 

 or rocks in the bottom of it, are several lesser bays 

 or coves, which seemed to be sheltered from all 

 winds. Off the S. point are several rocks which 

 raise their heads above water, and, probably, many 

 more that do not. 



Thus far our course was in a direction parallel to 

 the coast, and not more than two miles from it. 

 Thither our glasses were continually pointed ; and 

 we could easily see that, except the bottoms of the 

 bays and coves, which, for the most part, terminated 

 in sandy beaches, the shores were rocky, and, in 

 many places, swarmed with birds; but the country 

 had the same barren and naked appearance as in the 

 neighbourhood of Christmas Harbour. 



We had kept on our larboard bow the land which 

 first opened off Cape St. Louis *, in the direction of 

 S. 53 E., thinking that it was an island, and that we 

 should find a passage between it and the main. We 

 now discovered this to be a mistake; and found that 

 it was a peninsula, joined to the rest of the coast by a 

 low isthmus. I called the bay, formed by this penin- 



* Cap Frun^oib. 



