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steered more southerly, in order to get in with the 

 land. At noon, the latitude by double altitudes was 

 49 8' S. ; and we had made eighty miles of E. lon- 

 gitude from Cape St. Louis.* Mount Campbell bore 

 S. 47 W., distant about four leagues; a low point, 

 beyond which no land was to be seen, bore S. S. E., 

 at the distance of about twenty miles ; and we were 

 about two leagues from the shore. 



The land here is low and level, t The mountains 

 ending about five leagues from the low point, a great 

 extent of low land is left, on which Mount Campbell 

 is situated, about four miles from the foot of the 

 mountains, and one from the sea-coast. These 

 mountains have a considerable elevation, as also most 

 of the inland ones. They seemed to be composed of 

 naked rocks, whose summits were capt with snow. 

 Nor did the valleys appear to greater advantage. To 

 whatever quarter we directed our glasses, nothing but 

 sterility was to be seen. 



We had scarcely finished taking the bearings at 

 noon, before we observed low land opening off the 

 low point just mentioned, in the direction of S. S. E., 

 and eight miles beyond it. This new point proved 

 to be the very eastern extremity of this land, and it 

 was named Cape Digby. It is situated in the lati- 

 tude of 49 23' S., and in the longitude of 70 34/ E. 



Between Howe's Foreland and Cape Digby, the 

 shore forms (besides the several lesser bays and har- 

 bours) one great bay that extends several leagues to 

 the south-west, where it seemed to lose itself in vari- 

 ous arms running in between the mountains. A pro- 



* Cap Francois. 



f This part of the coast seems to be what the French saw on 

 the 5th of January, 1774-. Monsieur de Pages speaks of it thus: 

 " Nous reconnumes une nouvelle cote etendue de toute vue dans 

 " Test, et dans le ouest. Les terres de cette cote etoient moins 

 " elevees que celles que nous avions vues jusques ici ; elles Etoient 

 " aussi d'un aspect moins rude." De Pa%es } torn. ii. p. 68. 



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