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»77'- to South, half Eaft ; each extreme about feven leagues dif- 

 tant. Seeing no figns of a harbour, and the weather being 

 flill unfettled, I tacked and (Iretched ofF South Weft, having 

 then fifty-five fathoms water over a muddy bottom. 



That part of the land, which we were fo near when we 

 tacked, is of a moderate height, though, in fome places, in 

 rifes higher within. It was diverfified with a great many 

 rifing grounds and fmall hills; many of which were entirely 

 covered with tall, ftraight trees ; and others, which were 

 lower, and grew in fpots like coppices ; but the interfpaccs, 

 and fides of many of the rifing grounds, were clear. The 

 whole, though it might make an agreeable fummer pro- 

 fpecft, had now an uncomfortable appearance ; as the bare 

 grounds toward the coaft were all covered with fnow, which 

 feemed to be of a confidcrable depth between the little hills 

 and rifing grounds ; and, in feveral places toward the fca, 

 might cafily have been miftaken, at a diftance, for white 

 cliflfs. The fnow on the rifing grounds was thinner fpread; 

 and farther inland, there was no appearance of any; from 

 whence we might, perhaps, conclude, that what we faw to- 

 ward the fea, had fallen during the night ; which was cold- 

 er than any we had experienced fince our arrival on the 

 coaft; and we had fometimes a kind of fleet. The coaft 

 feemed every where almoft ftraight, without any opening 

 or inlet ; and it appeared to terminate in a kind of white 

 fandy beach ; though fome on board thought that appear- 

 ance was owing to the fnow. Each extreme of the land 

 that was now before us, feemed to ftioot out into a point. 

 The Northern one was the fame which we had firft fcen on 

 the yth ; and, on that account, I called it Cape Fcrpetua. 

 It lies in the latitude of 44° 6' North, and in the longitude of 

 535° 52' Eaft. The Southern extreme before us, 1 named 



Cape 



