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The land, except in fomc places clofe to the fea, is all of »773. 



a confiderable height, and hilly ; but Mount Edgcunibe far ' ll~. 



out-tops all the other hills. It was wholly covered with 

 fnow ; as were alfo all the other elevated hills -, but the 

 lower ones, and the flatter fpots, bordering upon the fea, 

 were free from it, and covered with wood. 



As we advanced to the North, we found the coaft from 

 Cape Edgcumbe to trend to North and North Eafterly for 

 fix or feven leagues, and there form a large bay. In the 

 entrance of that bay are fome iflands ; for which rcafon I 

 named it the Bay of //lands. It lies in the latitude of 57° 20' * ; 

 and feemed to branch into feveral arms, one of which turned 

 to the South, and may probably communicate with the bay 

 on the Eaft fide of Cape Edgcumbe, and make the land of 

 that Cape an ifland. At eight o'clock in the evening, the 

 Cape bore South Eaft half South; the Bay of Iflands North 

 53° Eaft; and another inlet, before which are alfo fome 

 iflands, bore North 52° Eaft, five leagues diftant. I conti- 

 nued to fleer North North Weft, half Weft, and North Weft 

 by Weft, as the coaft trended, with a fine gale at North Eaft, 

 and clear weather. 



At half an hour paft four in the morning, on the 3d, Sunday ji 

 Mount Edgcumbe bore South 54° Eaft ; a large inlet, North 

 50° Eaft, diftant fix leagues ; and the moft advanced point of 

 the land, to the North Weft, lying under a very high peaked 

 mountain, which obtained the name of Mouni Fair Preather^ 

 bore North 32° Weft. The inlet was named CrcJ} Sowid, as 

 being firft feen on that day, fo marked in our calendar. It 



* It fhould feem, that in this very bay, the Spaniards, in 1775, found their port 

 which they call De los Ranedios. The latitude is exadly the fame ; and their Journal 

 mentions its being proteHed by a long ridge of high ijlands. See Mifcellanks by the 

 Honourable Daines Barrington, p. 5Q3, 504. 



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