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at the distance of twelve or fourteen leagues, and the 

 land is of a broken and hilly surface. Between the 

 foot of the high land and the sea there is a low flat 

 border, off which there are some rocks that appear 

 above water. Between this Cape and Cape Turn- 

 again, the land near the shore is, in many places, 

 low and flat, and has a green and pleasant appearance; 

 but farther from the sea it rises into hills. The land 

 between Cape Palliser and Cape Tierawitte is high 

 and makes in table-points ; it also seemed to us to 

 form two bays, but we were at too great a distance 

 from this part of the coast to judge accurately from 

 appearances. The wind having been variable, with 

 calms, we had advanced no farther by the 12th at 

 noon than latitude 41 52', Cape Palliser then bearing 

 north, distant about five leagues ; and the snowy 

 mountain S. 83 W. 



At noon on the 13th, we found ourselves in the 

 latitude of 42 2' S. ; Cape Palliser bearing N. 20 E. 

 distant eight leagues. In the afternoon, a fresh gale 

 sprung up at N. E., and we steered S. W. by W. for 

 the southermost land in sight, which at sunset bore 

 from us S. 7^ W. At this time the variation was 

 15 4' E. 



At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th, having 

 run one-and-twenty leagues S. 58 W. since the pre- 

 ceeding noon, it fell calm. We were then abreast of 

 the snowy mountain which bore from us N. W. and 

 in this direction lay behind a mountainous ridge of 

 nearly the same height, which rises directly from the 

 sea, and runs parallel with the shore, which lies 

 N. E. \ N. and S. W. \ S. The north-west end of 

 the ridge rises inland, not far from Cape Campbell ; 

 and both the mountain and the ridge are distinctly 

 seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Palliser : 

 from Koamaroo they are distant two-and-twenty 

 leagues S. W. \ S. ; and from Cape Palliser thirty 

 leagues W. S. W. \ and are of a height sufficient to be 

 seen at a much greater distance. Some persons on 



