I^Z VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



Our obfervations placed Cape Nepean in the 

 latitude of 8 49/ 10" fouth, and longitude of 

 j 54 56' 24" eaft. 



The Eddyftone rock is in latitude 8 fouth, 

 and longitude 154 5' eaft ; and confequcntly 

 more to the eaflward than it is laid down by 

 Shortland. 



At two o'clock in the morning we hove to . 

 till daylight. 



Early on the 10th we difcovered the Treafury 

 Iflands, four myriameters diflant to the north- 

 well by north : they lie twelve myriameters 

 north-weft of the Eddyflone. 



At noon we were a demi-myriameter from 

 the weft point of the ifland which lies the far- 

 theft to the wefuvard, and which is the largeft 

 of this little group ; its latitude is 7 25' 36" 

 fouth, and its longitude 152 56' 34" eaft. 



Jive or fix of thefe iflands lie fo near to each 

 other, that, at a diflance, it would be fuppofed 

 they formed only one; this was imagined to 

 be the cafe by Bougainville, who difcovered 

 them to the wefhvard in panning through the 

 channel to which he has given his name. The 

 Efperance diftinguifhed no more than three of 

 thefe, while we distinctly faw five ; and per- 

 haps, on a nearer approach, we fhould have 

 difecrned a greater number. The mountains 

 which form thefe iflands are of a moderate 

 2 height, 



