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CHAP. V. 



Departure fro7?i Chrijlmas Harbour. — Range along the 

 CoaJ}j to difcover its Pofit'ton and Extent. — Several 

 Promcntorjes and Bays.^ and a Peninfula, defcribed and 

 namea. — Danger front Shoals. — Another Harbour and 

 a Sound. — Mr, Anderfons Obfervations on the natural 

 Prcdu&ionSj Afiimals.^ Soil, &'c, of Kerguehfi s La?2d. 



J?76- A S foon as the fhips were out of Chriftmas Harbour, we 



-," — ^ l\ fleered South Eaft 4. South, along the coaft, with a 



Sun ny29. ^j-^g bj-gg^e at North North Weft, and clear weather. This 

 we thought the more fortunate, as, for fome time paft, fogs 

 had prevailed, more or lefs, every day; and the continu- 

 ance of them would have defeated our plan of extending 

 Kerguelen's difcovery. We kept the lead conflantly going ; 

 but feldom flruck ground with a line of fifty or fixty 

 fathoms. 



About feven or eight o'clock, we were off a promontory, 

 which I called Cape Cumberland. It lies a league and a 

 half from the South point of Chriftraas Harbour, in the 

 dire(5lion of South Eaft 4, South. Between them is a bay 

 with two arras, both of which feemed to afford good fhelter 

 for Shipping. Off Cape Cumberland is a fmall but pretty 

 high iftand, on the fummit of whTch is a rock like a fen- 

 try-box, which occafioned our giving that name to the 

 iiland. Two miles farther to the Eaftward, lies a groupe of 



fmall 



