I<i*> cook's second voyage SEPT. 



when we got a faint land breeze at S. W., with which 

 we steered S. E. all night. 



On the 22d, at sunrise, the land was clouded, but 

 it was not long before the clouds went off, and we 

 found, by our land-marks, that we had made a good 

 advance. At ten o'clock, the land-breeze being suc- 

 ceeded by a sea-breeze at E. by S., this enabled us to 

 stand in for the land, which at noon extended from 

 N. 78° West, to S. 31i° East, round by the south. In 

 this last direction the coast seemed to trend more to 

 the south in a lofty promontory, which, on account 

 of the day, received the name of Cape Coronation. 

 Latitude 22° 2', longitude 167° 7*' East. Some break- 

 ers lay between us and the shore, and probably they 

 were connected with those we had seen before. 



During the night we had advanced about two 

 leagues to S.E., and at day-break, on the Q3d, an ele- 

 vated point appeared in sight beyond Cape Coron- 

 ation, bearing S. 23° East. It proved to be theS.E. ex- 

 tremity of the coast, and obtained the name of Queen 

 Charlotte's Foreland. Latitude c 2°2° 16' S., longitude 

 1 67 14/ East. About noon, having got a breeze from 

 the N. E., we stood to S. S.E., and, as we drew to- 

 wards Cape Coronation, saw in a valley to the south 

 of it, a vast number of those elevated objects be- 

 fore-mentioned -, and some low land under the Fore- 

 land was wholly covered with them. We could not 

 agree in our opinions of what they were. I supposed 

 them to be a singular sort of trees, being too numer- 

 ous to resemble any thing else ; and a great deal of 

 smoke kept rising all the day from amongst those 

 near the Cape. Our philosophers were of opinion 

 that this was the smoke of some internal and perpe- 

 tual fire. My representing to them that there was 

 no smoke here in the morning, would have been of 

 no avail, had not this eternal fire gone out before 

 night, and no more smoke been seen after. They 

 were still more positive, that the elevations were 

 pillars of basaltes, like those which compose the 



