December. 



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friend Admiral Sir Husrh Pallifer. It is fituated in the lati- ^ '77*5 



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tude of 49° 3' South, in the longitude of 69" 37' Eaft, and 

 five leagues from Howe's Foreland, in the diredtion of South 

 25° Eaft. There are feveral iflands, rocks, and breakers 

 lying in and without the entrance, for which the annexed 

 Chart of the coaft, and fketch of the harbour, may be con- 

 fulted. We went in and out between them and the North 

 head ; but I have no doubt that there are other channels. 



As we were {landing out of Port Pallifer, we difcovered a 

 round hill, like a fugar-loaf, in the diredtion of South 72° 

 Eaft, about nine leagues diftant. It had the appearance of 

 an ifland lying at fome diftance fi'om the coaft; but we 

 afterwards found it was upon the main land. In getting 

 out to fea, we had to fteer through the winding channels 

 amongft the faoals. However, we ventured to run over 

 fome of them, on which we never found lefs than eighteen 

 fathoms, and often did not ftrike ground with twenty- four; 

 fo that, had it not been for the fea-weed growing upon all 

 of them, they would not have been difcovered. 



After we had got about three or four leagues from the 

 coaft, we found a clear Tea, and then fteered Eaft till nine 

 o'clock, when the Sugar Loaf hill, above mentioned, which 

 I named Mount Campbell, bore South Eaft, and a fmall 

 ifland that lies to the Northward of ir. South South Eaft, 

 diftant four leagues. I now fteered more Southerly, in or- 

 der to get in with the land. At noon, the latitude by double 

 altitudes was 49° 8' South; and we had made eighty miles, 

 of Eaft longitude from Cape Sr. Louis*. xMount Campbell 

 bore South 47° Weft, diftant about four leagues ; a low 

 point, beyond which no land was to be feen, bore Souih 



* Cape Francois. 



South, 



