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A VOYAGE TO 



'779- fhaped like a fugar-loaf ; the other, which is farther inland,. 



October. 



does not appear fo high, and is flat at the top. To the 

 North of the bay, are three very confpicuous mountains ; 

 the Weilemmoft is, to appearance, the highcfl ; the next is 

 the volcano mountain, which may be known from the fmoke 

 that ifTues from its top, and likewifc from fome high table- 

 hills connected with it, and ftretching to the Northward : 

 thefe two arc fome what peaked. The third, and the mod 

 Northerly, might perhaps be more properly called a clufter 

 of mountains, as it prefents to the fight feveral flat tops. 



When the navigator has got within the Capes, and into 

 the outward bay, a perpendicular headland, with a light- 

 houfe erected upon it, will point out the entrance of the.bay 

 of Awatfka to the Northward. To the Eaflward of this 

 head-land lie many funken rocks, ftretching into the fea, to 

 the diftance of two or three miles ; and which will fhew 

 themfclves, if there be but a moderate fea or fwell. Four 

 miles to the South of the entrance lies a fmall round ifland, 

 very diftinguifhable from being principally compofed of 

 high pointed rocks, with one of them ftrikingly remark- 

 able, as being much larger, more peaked and perpendicular, 

 than the reft. 



It is no way necefTary to be equally particular in the de- 

 fcription of the bay itfelf, as of its approaches and environs ; 

 fince no words can give the mariner fo perfect an idea of it, 

 as the annexed plan. From this it will appear, that the 

 entrance is at firft near three miles wide, and in the narrow- 

 eft part one mile and a half, and four miles long, in a 

 North North Weft direction. Within the mouth is a noble 

 bafon of twenty-five miles circuit, with the capacious har- 

 bours of Tarcinfka to the Weft, of Rakoweena to the 



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