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Elizabeth, between it and a lofty promontory, named Cape 

 Bede*y is a bay, in the bottom of wliich there appeared to 

 be two fnug harbours. We flood well into this bay, where 

 we might have anchored in twenty-three fathoms water; 

 but as I had no fuch view, we tacked and flood to the Weft- 

 ward, with the wind at North, a very flrong gale, attended 

 by rain, and thick hazy weather. 



The next morning the gale abated ; but the fame wea- 

 ther continued till three o'clock in the afternoon, when it 

 cleared up. Cape Douglas bore South Weft by Weft ; Mount 

 St. Auguftin Weft half South; and Cape Bede South, 15" 

 Eaft, five leagues diftant. In this fituation, the depth of 

 water was forty fathoms, over a rocky bottom. From Cape 

 Bede, the coafl trended North Eaft by Eafl, with a chain 

 of mountains inland, extending in the fame direcftion. The 

 land on the coafl was woody ; and there feemed to be no de- 

 ficiency of harbours. But what was not much in our fa- 

 vour, we difcovered low land in the middle of the inlet, 

 extending from North North Eaft, to North liaft by Eaft half 

 Eaft. However, as this was fuppofed to be an iftand, it did not 

 difcourage us. About this time, we got a light breeze 

 Southerly, and I fleered to the Weftward of this low land ; 

 nothing appearing to obflrudl us in that dire(R;ion. Our 

 foundings, durmg the night, were from thirty to twenty- 

 five fathoms. 



On the 28th in the morning, having but very little wind, ThurfdayzS. 

 and obierving the fhip to drive to the Southward, in order 

 to flop her, I dropped a kedge-anchor, with an eight inch 

 hawfer bent to it. But, in bringing the fliip up, the hawfer 



* In naming this, and Mount St. Auguftin, C.:pt:\in Cook was djredled by our 

 Calendar. 



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