8o AVOYAGETO 



1776. the line out before ihe lead could reach the bottom ; and 



I>eccir.ber. 



• — -v ' being difappointed in my views both of anchoring and of 



landing, I would not fhorten fail, but pufhed forward, in 

 order to fee as much of the coaft as poffible before night. 

 From Cape Digby, it trends nearly South Weft by South 

 for about four or five leagues, or to a low point, to which, 

 in honour of h^r Majefty, I gave the name of Point Char- 

 lotte, and it is the Southernmoll on the low coaft. 



Six leagues from Cape Digby, in the diredion of South 

 South Weft 2- Weft, is a pretty high projefting point, which 

 was called Prince of Wales's Foreland ; and fix leagues be- 

 yond that, in the fame diredlion, and in the latitude of 49° 

 ^4' South, and the longitude of 70° 13' Eaft, is the moft 

 Southerly point of the whole coaft, which I diftinguillied by 

 the name of Cape George, in honour of his Majefty. 



Between Point Charlotte and Prince of Wales's Foreland, 

 where the country to the South Weft began again to be 

 hilly, is a deep inlet, which was called Royal Sound. It 

 runs in Weft, quite to the foot of the mountains which 

 bound it on the South Weft, as the low land before-men- 

 tioned does on the North. There are iftands lying in the 

 entrance, and others higher up, as far as we could diftin- 

 guifli. As we advanced to the South, we obferved, on the 

 South Weft fide of Prince of Wales's Foreland, another inlet 

 into Royal Sound ; and it then appeared, that the Foreland 

 was the Eaft point of a large iftand lying in the mouth of it. 

 There are feveral fmall iftands in this inlet ; and one about 

 a league to the Southward of Prince of Wales's Foreland. 



All the land on the South Weft fide of Royal Sound, quite 



to Cape George, is compofed of elevated hills, that rife di- 



xedtly from the fea, one behind another, to a confiderable 



4 height. 



