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tude 37 58' S., and longitude 210 39' W. The 

 southermost point of land in sight, which bore from 

 us W. i S., I judged to lie in latitude 38, longitude 

 211 7' and gave it the name of Point Hicks, be- 

 cause Mr. Hicks, the first lieutenant, was the first 

 who discovered it. To the southward of this Point 

 no land was to be seen, though it was very clear in 

 that quarter, and by our longitude, compared with 

 that of Tasman, not as it is laid down in the printed 

 charts, but in the extracts from Tasman's journal, 

 published by Rembrantse, the body of Van Diemen's 

 land ought to have borne due south ; and, indeed, 

 from the sudden falling of the sea after the wind 

 abated, I had reason to think it did ; yet as I did not 

 see it, and as I found this coast trend N. E. and 

 S. W., or rather more to the eastward, I cannot deter- 

 mine whether it joins to Van Diemen's land or not. 



At noon we were in latitude 370 5', longitude 

 210 29' W. The extremes of the land extended 

 from N. W. to E. N. E., and a remarkable point 

 bore N. 20 E., at the distance of about four leagues. 

 This point rises in a round hillock, very much re- 

 sembling the Ram Head at the entrance of Plymouth 

 Sound, and therefore I called it by the same name. 

 The variation by an azimuth, taken this morning, 

 was 3 7' E. ; and what we had now seen of the land, 

 appeared low and level : the sea-shore was a white 

 sand, but the country within was green and woody. 

 About one o'clock, we saw three water-spouts at 

 once ; two were between us and the shore, and 

 the third at some distance, upon our larboard quar- 

 ter : this phenomenon is so well known, that it is not 

 necessary to give a particular description of it here. 



At six o'clock in the evening we shortened sail, 

 and brought to for the night, having fifty-six fa- 

 thom water, and a fine sandy bottom.. The norther- 

 most land in sight then bore N. by E. \ E., and 

 a small island lying close to a point on the main 

 bore W. distant two leagues. This point, which I 



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