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permit me to spend so much time about this island 

 as I had employed upon the other ; and the storms 

 that we met with made it both difficult and dangerous 

 to keep near the shore. However, from Queen 

 Charlotte's Sound to Cape Campbell, and as far to 

 the S, W. as latitude 43, the chart will be found 

 pretty accurate. Between latitude 43 and latitude 

 44 20' the line may be doubted, for of some part of 

 the coast which it represents we had scarcely a view. 



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From latitude 44 20', to Cape Saunders, our dis- 

 tance would not permit me to be particular, and the 

 weather was besides extremely unfavourable. From 

 Cape Saunders to Cape South, and even to Cape 

 West, there is also reason to fear that the chart will 

 in many places be found erroneous, as we were seldom 

 able to keep the shore, and were sometimes blown to 

 such a distance that it could not be seen. From 

 Cape West to Cape Farewell, and even to Charlotte's 

 Sound, it is not more to be trusted. 



Tovy Poenammoo is for the most part a moun- 

 tainous, and to all appearance a barren country; and 

 the people whom we saw in Queen Charlotte's Sound, 

 those that came off to us under the snowy mountains, 

 and the fires to the west of Cape Saunders, were all 

 the inhabitants, and signs of inhabitants, that we dis- 

 covered upon the whole island. 



Eaheinomauwe has a much better appearance ; it 

 is indeed not only hilly but mountainous, yet even 

 the hills and mountains are covered with wood, and 

 every valley has a rivulet of water : the soil in these 

 valleys, and in the plains, of which there are many 

 that are not overgrown with wood, is in general light 

 but fertile, and in the opinion of Mr. Banks and Dr. 

 Solander, as well as of every other gentleman on board, 

 all kinds of European grain, plants, and fruit, would 

 flourish here in the utmost luxuriance: from the 

 vegetables that we found here, there is reason to 

 conclude, that the winters are milder than those in 

 England, and we found the summer not hotter, 



