THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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the ftrait or pafTaee that feparates it from the main '778- 



June. 



land. ' — -V — 



Between one and two in the afternoon, the wind, which 

 had been at North Eaft, fliifted at once to the Southward. 

 It was unfcttled till fix, when it fixed at South, which was 

 the very direftion of our courfe ; fo that we were obliged to 

 ply up the coaft. The weather was gloomy, and the air 

 dry, but cold. We flood to the Eaflward till midnight; then 

 tacked, and flood in for the land ; and, between feven and 

 eight in the morning of the 8th, we were within four miles Mondays- 

 of it, and not more than half a league fiom fome funken 

 rocks, which bore Wefl South Weft. In this fituation we 

 tacked in thirty-five fathoms water, the illand of St. Hermo- 

 genes bearing North, 20° Eaft, and the Southernmoft land in 

 fight, South. 



In ftanding in for this coaft, we crofled the mouth of 

 Whitfuntidc Bay, and faw land all round the bottom of it ; 

 fo that either the land is connected, or elfe the points lock 

 in, one behind another. I am more inclined to think, that 

 the former is the cafe ; and that the land, Eaft of the bay, 

 is a part of the continent. Some fmall iflands lie on the 

 Weft of the bay. The fca- coaft to the Southward of it is ra- 

 ther low, with projedling rocky points, between which arc 

 fmall bays or inlets. There was no wood, and biu little 

 fnow upon the coaft; but the mountains, which lie at fome 

 diftance inland, were wholly covered with the latter. We flood 

 oflf till noon ; then tacked, and flood in for the land. The la- 

 titude, at this time, was 57' 52;' ; Cape St. Hermogenes bore 

 North, 30° Weft, eight leagues diftant; and the Southern- 

 moft part of the coaft in fight, the fame that was feen be- 

 fore, bore South Weft, ten leagues diftant. The land here 

 forms a point, which was named Cape Grevillc. It lies in 



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