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1776- country had the fame barren and naked appearance as in 



December. ^ •' ^ ^ 



t . ' the neighbourhood of Chriftmas Harbour. 



We had kept on our larboard bow, the hmd which firll 

 opened off Cape St. Louis *, in the dire(5lion of South 53° Eait, 

 thinking that it was an ifland, and that we fliould find a paf- 

 fage betv/een it and the main. We now difcovered this to be 

 a miftake ; and found that it was a peninfula, joined to the 

 refl of t!ie coait by a low iUhmus. I called the bay, formed 

 by this peninfula, Repulfe Bay; and a branch of it feemed 

 to run a good way inland towards the South South Weft. 

 Leaving this, wc fteered for the Northern point of the penin- 

 fula, which we named Howe's Foreland, in honour of Ad- 

 Kiiral Lord Howe. 



As we drew near it, we perceived fome rocks and breakers 

 near the North Weft part; and two iflands a league and a 

 half to the Eaftward of it, which, at firft, appeared as one. 

 I ileered between them and the Foreland -f , and was in the 

 middle of the channel by noon. At that time our latitude, 

 by obfervation, was 48° 51' South ; and we had made twenty- 

 fix miles of Eaft longitude from Cape St. Louis X- 



From this fimation, the moft advanced land to the South- 

 ward bore South Eaft ; but the trending of the coaft from 

 the Foreland was more Southerly. The iflands which lie 



* Cape Francois. 



t Though KerguelerTs fhips, in 1773, diJ not venture to explore this part of tlic 

 CGail, JVIonficur de Pages's account of it anfwers well to Captain Cook's. " Du 17 

 " 3u 23, Ton ne pritd'autre connoiflance que celle de la figure de la cote, qui, courant 

 " d'abord au Sud-Eft, & revenant enfuite au Nord-Eft, formoit un grand golfe. II 

 " etoit occupe par des brifans & des rcch:;rs ; il avoit aufli une iflc bafiie, & afTc/, 

 " etendue, & Ton ufa d'une bien foigneufe precaution, pour ne pas s'affaler d^ns ce 

 " golfe." Vcynge du M. dc Pa^es, Tom. ii. p. 67. 



^ Cape Francois. 



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