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1778- Having continued to ply back all night, by day-break the 



JZZ!l-_^ next morning wc had got into fix fathoms water. At nine 

 •1 hjrfdayio. q,^Jq^},^ being about a league from the Weft ftiore, I took 

 two boats, and landed, attended by Mr. King, to feek wood 

 and water. We landed where the coaft projedls out into a 

 bluff head, compofed of perpendicular 7?r<7/'a of a rock of a 

 dark blue colour, mixed with quartz and glimmer. There 

 joins to the beach a narrow border of land, now covered 

 with long grafs, and where we met with fome angelica. 

 Beyond this, the ground rifes abruptly. At the top of this 

 elevation, we found a heath, abounding with a variety of 

 berries ; and further on, the country was level, and thinly 

 covered with fmall fpnice trees ; and birch and willows no 

 bigger than broom Ruff. We obferved tracks of deer and 

 foxes on the beach j on which alfo lay a great quantity of 

 drift-wood ; and there was no want of frcQi water. I re- 

 turned on board, with an intention to bring the fliips to an 

 anchor here ; but the wind then veering to North Eaft, 

 which blew rather on this fliore, I flretched over to the op- 

 pofite one, in the expecftation of finding wood there alfo, and 

 anchored at eight o'clock in the evening, under the South 

 end of the Northernmofl ifland: fo we then fuppofed it to 

 frriiiay 11. ^c ; but, next morning, we found it to be a peninfula, unit- 

 ed to tlie continent by a low neck of land, on each fide 

 of whicli the coaft forms a bay. We plied into tiie Soutli- 

 ernmoft, and about noon anchored in five fathoms water, 

 over a bottom of nmd; the point of the peninfula, which 

 obtained ihe name of Cape Denbigh, bearing North 68" 

 VWft, three miles diftant. 



Several people were fcen upon the peninfula ; and one 

 nian came oil' in a fmall canoe. I gave him a knife, and a 

 few beads, with which he fccmed well pleafcd. Having 



made 



