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A VOYAGE TO 



1779- a high barren hill, flattifh at the top, and when feen from 

 the Weft South Weft, prefents an evident volcanic crater. 

 The earth, rock, or fand, for it was not eafy to diftinguifh 

 of which its furface is compofed, exhibited various colours, 

 and a considerable part we conjectured to be fulphur, boh 

 from its appearance to the eye, and the ftrong lulphureous 

 fmell which we perceived, as we approached the point. 

 Some of the oflicers on board the Resolution, which pafled 

 nearer the land, thought they faw fleams rifing from the 

 top of the hill. From thefe circumftances, Captain Gore 

 gave it the name of Sulphur Ijland. A low, narrow, neck of 

 land connects this hill with the South end of the ifland, 

 which fpreads out into a circumference of three or four 

 leagues, and is of a moderate height. The part near the 

 ifthmus has fome bufb.es on it, and has a green appearance, 

 but thofe to the North Eaft are very barren, and full of 

 large detached rocks, many of which were exceedingly 

 white. Very dangerous breakers extend two miles and a 

 half to the Eaft, and two miles to the Weft off the middle 

 part of the ifland, on which the fea broke with great 

 violence. 



The North and South iflands appeared to us as Angle 

 mountains, of a confiderable height ; the former peaked, 

 and of -a conical fhape ; the latter more fquare and flat at 

 the top. Sulphur Ifland we place in latitude 24° 48', longi- 

 tude 141* 12'. The North ifland in latitude 25* 14', lon- 

 gitude 14 1° io'. The South ifland in latitude 24 22', 

 and longitude 141° 20'. The variation obferved was 3 30' 

 Eaft. 



Captain Core now directed his courfe to the Weft South 

 Weft, for the Bafhee Iflands, hoping to procure, at them, 



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