104 AVOYAGETO 



'777- March 1773. I hardly need fay, that it is the Southern 



* , ' point of New Holland, which, if it doth not deferve the 



name of a continent, is by far the largeft illand in the 

 ■world. 



The land is, for the moft part, of a good height, diverfified 

 with hills and valleys, and every where of a greenifli hue. 

 It is well wooded J and, if one may judge from appear- 

 ances, and from what we met with in Adventure Bay, is 

 not ill fupplied with water. We found plenty of it in three 

 or four places in this bay. The beft, or what is moft con- 

 venient for fliips that touch here, is a rivulet, which is one 

 of feveral that fall into a pond, that lies behind the beach 

 at the head of the bay. It there mixes with the fea- water; 

 fo that it muft be taken up above this pond, which may be 

 done without any great trouble. Fire-wood is to be got, 

 with great eafe, in feveral places. 



The only wind to which this bay is expofed, is the North 

 Eaft. But as this wind blows from Maria's iflands, it can 

 bring no very great fea along with it ; and therefore, upon 

 the whole, this may be accounted a very fafe road. The 

 bottom is clean, good holding ground ; and the depth of 

 water from twelve, to five and four fathoms. But the an- 

 nexed Chart will convey a better idea of every thing neceffary 

 to be known about Adventure Bay, than any defcription. 



Captain Furneaux's fketch of Van Diemen's Land, pub- 

 liflied with the Narrative of my laft Voyage*, appears to me 

 to be without any material error, except with regard to Ma- 

 ria's Iflands, which have a different fituation from what is 

 there reprefented. What my idea of them is, will be feen 



* Vol. i. p. 115. 



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