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• /-s- At tliis time, wc faw feveral columns of fmoke, on the 



1 "''' ' coafl: of the continent, to the Northward of the pafTage j 

 and, mod probably, they were meant as fignals to attra(5t 

 us thither. Here the land forms a bay, or perhaps a har- 

 bour ; off the North Wed point of which lies a low, rocky 

 illand. There are alfo fome other iflands of the fame ap- 

 pearance, fcattered along the coaft, between this place and 

 Point Banks. 



At eight in the evening, the ifland of St. Hermogenes ex- 

 tended from South half Eaft, to South South Eaft, a quarter 

 Eaftj and the rocks that lie on the North fide of it bore 

 South Eaft, three miles diftant. hi this fituation, we had 

 forty fathoms water over a bottom of fand and fliells. Soon 

 after, on putting over hooks and lines, we caught feveral 

 halibut. 



At midnight, being pad the rocks, we bore up to the 

 Sunday 7. Southward; and, at noon, St. Hermogenes bore North, 

 four leagues diftant. At this time, the Southernmoft point 

 of the main land, w-ithin or to the Weftward of St. Hermo- 

 genes, lay North half Weft, diftant five leagues. This pro- 

 montory, which is fituated in the latitude of 58° 15', and in 

 • the longitude of ^07° 24', was named, after the day, Qipe 

 Jf'hltfnnJaw A large bay, which lies to the Weft of it, ob- 

 tained the name of WhitfuntiJe Bay. The land on the Eaft 

 fide of this bay, of which Cape Whitfunday is the Southern 

 point, and Point Banks the Northern one, is, in all re- 

 fpe^ls, like the ifland of St. Hermogenes; fcemingly def-. 

 titiue of wood, and partly free from fnow. It was fup- 

 pofcd to be covered with a mofly fubftance, that gave it a 

 brownifli eaft. There were fome reafons to think it was 

 an ifland. If this be fo, the laft mentioned bay is only 



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