316 cook's voyage to may, 



At this time the northern point of an inlet, or what 

 appeared to be one, bore E. by S. It lies in the 

 latitude of 56, and from it to the northward, the 

 coast seemed to be much broken, forming bays and 

 harbours every two or three leagues, or else appear- 

 ances much deceived us. At six o'clock, drawing 

 nearer the land, I steered N.W. by N., this being 

 the direction of the coast, having a fresh gale at S. E., 

 with some showers of hail, snow, and sleet. Between 

 eleven and twelve o'clock, we passed a group of 

 small islands lying under the main land, in the latitude 

 of 56 48', and oft', or rather to the northward of, the 

 S. point of a large bay. An arm of this bay, in the 

 northern part of it, seemed to extend in toward the 

 N., behind a round elevated mountain that lies be- 

 tween it and the sea. This mountain I called Mount 

 Edgecumbe, and the point of land that shoots out 

 from it, Cape Edgecumbe. The latter lies in the 

 latitude of 57 3', and in the longitude of 224 7', and 

 at noon it bore N. 20 W., six leagues distant. 



The land, except in some places close to the sea, 

 is all of a considerable height, and hilly; but Mount 

 Edgecumbe far out-tops all the other hills. It was 

 wholly covered with snow ; as were also all the other 

 elevated hills ; but the lower ones, and the flatter 

 spots, bordering upon the sea, were free from it, and 

 covered with wood. 



As we advanced to the north, we found the coast 

 from Cape Edgecumbe to trend to north and north 

 easterly for six or seven leagues, and there form a 

 large bay. In the entrance of that bay are some 

 islands ; for which reason I named it the Bay of 

 Islands. It lies in the latitude of 57 20' * ; and 



this part of the coast ; that called Gualoupe, in latitude 57 11', a n d 

 the other, De los Remedios, in latitude 57 18'. 



* It should seem that in this very bay, the Spaniards, in 1775, 

 found their port which they call De los Remedios. The latitude is 

 exactly the same ; and their journal mentions its being protected 

 by a long ridge of high isla?ids. See Miscellanies by the Honourable 

 Daines Barrington, p. 503, 504. 



