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which however were rendered very difficult of access 

 by the surf and rocks upon the shore : I saw also, 

 as I came round the cape, a small stream of water 

 run over the beach in a sandy cove, but I did not 

 go in with the boat, because I saw that it would not 

 be easy to land. When we got ashore, we found the 

 country every where rising into steep rocky hills; 

 and as no fresh water could conveniently be pro- 

 cured, I was unwilling to lose time by going in 

 search of lower land elsewhere : we therefore made 

 the best of our way back to the ship, and about 

 midnight we weighed and stood to the N. W., having 

 but little wind, with some showers of rain. At four 

 in the morning, the breeze freshened at S. by E., and 

 the weather became fair : we continued steering 

 N. N. W. i W. as the land lay, at about three leagues 

 distance, with ten, twelve, and fourteen fathom 

 water. At ten, we hauled off north, in order to 

 get without a small low island, which lay at about 

 two leagues distance from the main, and great part 

 of which at this time, it being high-water, was over- 

 flowed : about three leagues to the north-west of this 

 island, close under the main land, is another island, 

 the land of which rises to a greater height, and which 

 at noon bore from us N. 55 W. distant seven or eight 

 miles. At this time our latitude was 16 20' S. ; Cape 

 Grafton bore S. 29 E. distant forty miles, and the 

 northermost point of land in sight N. 20 W. ; our 

 depth of water was fifteen fathom. Between this 

 point and Cape Grafton, the shore forms a large, but 

 not a very deep bay, which being discovered on 

 Trinity Sunday, I called Trinity Bay. 



