THE PACIFIC OCEAN. ^j 



Cngle flonc or rock, of a vaft fize, which lies on the top of ^ "776- 



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a hill on the South lide, near its bottom ; and oppofite « — -v— j 

 this, on the North fide, there is another hill, much like it, 

 but fmuller. There is a fmall beach at its bottom, where 

 we commonly landed ; and, behind it, fome gently rifing 

 ground; on the top of which is a large pool of frefh water. 

 The land on both fides of the inlet is high, and it runs in 

 Weft, and Wefl North Weft, about two miles. Its breadth 

 is one mile and a quarter, for more than half its length ; 

 above which, it is only half a mile. The depth of water, 

 which is forty-five fathoms at the entrance, varies, as we 

 proceed farther in, from thirty, to five and four fathoms, 

 as marked upon the Plan. The fhores are fteepi and the 

 bottom is every where a fine dark fand, except in fome 

 places clofe to the fhore, where there are beds of fea-weed, 

 which always grows on rocky ground. The head of the 

 harbour lies open only to two points of the compafs ; and 

 even thefe are covered by iflands in the offing, fo that no 

 fea can fall in to hurt a fhip. The appearances on fliore 

 confirmed this j for we found grafs growing clofe to high- 

 water mark, which is a fure fign of a pacific harbour *. 



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gateway, correfponds with that of the arch of a bridge. It is very fatisfadory to find 

 the two navigators, neither of whom knew any thing of the other's defcription, 

 adopting the fame idea ; which both proves that they had the fame uncommon objeit 

 before their eyes, and that they made an accurate report. 



* In the laft Note, we faw how remarkably Monfieur de Pages and Captain Ceok 

 agree about the appearance of the South Point of the harbour ; I fliall here fubjoin 

 another quotation from the former, containing his account of the harbour itfelf, in 

 which the Reader may trace the fame diflinguifhing features obferved by Captain Cook 

 in the foregoing paragraph, 



" Le 6, Pon mit a terre dans la premiere baie a PEfl: dii Cap Francois, h Pon prit 

 *' poiTefTion de ces contrces. Ce mouiUage confifte en un petite rade, qui a environs 

 *' quatres encablures, ou quatre cents toifes de profondeur, fur un tiers en fus de lar- 



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