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it fair weather. It was by the means of these 

 southerly blasts, that we were enabled to get to the 

 north-west at all. 



At length, at nine o'clock in the morning of the 

 29th, as we were standing to the north-east, we again 

 saw the land, which, at noon, extended from north- 

 west by west, to east south-east, the nearest part 

 about six leagues distant. Our latitude was now 

 49 29' north, and our longitude 232 29' east. The 

 appearance of the country differed much from that of 

 the parts which we had before seen, being full of 

 high mountains, whose summits were covered with 

 snow ; but the valleys between them, and the grounds 

 on the sea coast, high as well as low, were covered to 

 a considerable breadth with high straight trees, that 

 formed a beautiful prospect, as of one vast forest. 

 The south-east extreme of the land formed a low point, 

 off which are many breakers, occasioned by sunken 

 rocks. On this account it was called Point Breakers. 

 It lies in the latitude of 49 15' north, and in the lon- 

 gitude of 233 20' east ; and the other extreme, in 

 about the latitude of 50, and the longitude of 232. 

 I named this last Woody Point, It projects pretty 

 much out to the south west, and is high land. Be- 

 tween these two points, the shore forms a large bay, 

 which I called Hope Bay ; hoping, from the appear- 

 ance of the land, to find in it a good harbour. The 

 event proved, that we were not mistaken. 



As we drew nearer the coast, we perceived the ap- 

 pearance of two inlets ; one in the north-west, and 

 the other in the north-east corner of the bay. As I 

 could not fetch the former, I bore up to the latter, 

 and passed some breakers, or sunken rocks, that lay 

 a league or more from the shore. We had nineteen 

 and twenty fathoms^water half a league without them; 

 but as soon as we had passed them, the depth in- 

 creased to thirty, forty, and fifty fathoms, with a 

 sandy bottom ; and farther in we found no ground 

 with the greatest length of line. Notwithstanding 



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