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farther than proceeds from their using the k and h with 

 more force, or pronouncing them with less softness, than 

 we do. 



" On quitting the Sound, I bore away steering north- 

 west ; in which direction I supposed the coast to lie. At 

 half-past one in the afternoon, it blew a perfect hurricane, 

 so that I judged it highly dangerous to run any longer before 

 it, and therefore brought the ships to. At this time the 

 Resolution sprung a leak. It was no sooner discovered, 

 than the fish-room was found to be full of water, and the 

 casks in it afloat ; but this was in a great measure owing 

 to the water not finding its way to the pumps through 

 the coals that lay at the bottom of the room. For after 

 the water was baled out, which employed us till midnight, 

 and had found its way directly from the leak to the pumps, 

 it appeared that one pump kept it under, which gave us no 

 small satisfaction. 



" At seven in the evening on the 1st of May, we got 

 sight of the land, which abounds with hills, but one con- 

 siderably out-tops the rest ; this I called Mount Edgcumbe. 

 It was wholly covered with snow, as were also all the other 

 elevated hills ; but the lower ones, and the flatter spots 

 bordering upon the sea, were free from it, and covered 

 with wood. 



" On the 3rd, we saw a large inlet, distant six leagues, 

 and the most advanced point of the land, lying under a 

 very high peaked mountain, which obtained the name of 

 Mount Fair Weather. The inlet was named Cross Sound, 

 as being first on that day so marked in our calendar. 



" From the 4th to the 10th, nothing very interesting 

 occurred. On the 10th, we found ourselves no more than 

 three leagues from the coast of the continent, which ex- 

 tended as far as the eye could reach. To the westward 

 of this last direction was an island that extended from 

 north to south, distant six leagues. A point shoots out 

 from the main toward the north-east end of the island, 

 about five or six leagues distant. This point I named 

 Cape Suckling. 



" On the llth, I bore up for the island. At ten o'clock 

 in the morning, I went in a boat and landed upon it, with 

 a view of seeing what lay on the other side ; but finding 

 it farther to the hills than I expected, and the way being 

 steep and woody, I was obliged to drop the design. At 

 the foot of a tree, on a little eminence not far from the 

 shore, I left a bottle with a paper in it, on which were 

 inscribed the names of the ships, and the date of our dis- 

 covery. And along with it I enclosed two silver twopenny 

 pieces of his Majesty's coin, of the date 1772. These, with 



