218 ISOLATED ROCK. 



N. until midnight. Our progress through the day 

 was but slow ; the wind light and most provokingly 

 foul at W. N.W. While standing towards a small 

 island bearing N. and by W. five and a half miles 

 from Point Adieu, we discovered a single rock with 

 apparently deep water all around it, and just a wash 

 at low water. It bore N.W. and by W. three- 

 quarters of a mile from this island, which resembles 

 Red Island, and Captain King's group of the Rocky 

 Islands, in that calcined-like appearance which has 

 by turns given them " red" and " brown'* for a dis- 

 tinct appellation. In the afternoon we saw the sand- 

 bank laid down in Captain King's chart; it appeared 

 a white rocky islet. The night was spent beating 

 to the westward, between it and Red Island, against 

 a light breeze. 



April 20. — At daylight, whilst standing to the 

 S.W. the water shoaled rapidly though regularly 

 from 20 to 6 fathoms, we then tacked, Red^Island 

 bearing S.E. one mile and a quarter; in standing 

 out (north) the water deepened suddenly and almost 

 immediately to 15 fathoms, I imamne this shoal to 

 be a continuation of one laid down by Captain King, 

 extending two miles south from Red Island : passing 

 the latter on our way to Port George the Fourth 

 we had 28 to 30 fathoms, two and a half miles from 

 its Z'^.W. side. 



April 21. — We continued to make but little pro- 

 gress to the westward, scarcely averaging more than 

 a mile per hour: the soundings indicating that we were 



