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weft to allow us to ftand dire&ly in for it. The 

 fea being alio very high, and the horizon very 

 much obfeured by clouds, determined us to fleer 

 to the fouth-eaft by fouth, in hopes that next day 

 circuiiiltances would be more in our favour. 



At noon we found ourielves in the latitude of 

 34 12' fouth, and longitude of 112 eaft. 



We fpent the night lying to, and founded re- 

 peatedly, with a line of a hundred and twelve 

 fathoms, without (inking ground. 



It was not quite half pad two o'clock in the 

 morning of the 6th, when we flood on to the 

 eaft fouth-eaft, and as foon as daylight appeared, 

 the Efperance made the ftgnal for land in the 

 north-eaft quarter, at the diftance of three my- 

 riameters ; it was the weftern extremity of the 

 fouth-weft coaft of New Holland, difcovered by 

 Leuwin in 1622. It made like a low land, ex- 

 tending from north-weft to fouth-weft. 



At fix o'clock we fhaped our courfe eaft by 

 fouth, and when we were a myriameter from the 

 coaft we followed it in its direction to the fouth- 

 eaft. A frelh breeze from the weft north-weft 

 drove us along at the rate of three myriameters 

 an hour. 



The interior of the country was interfered by 

 downs covered with fands, which exhibited the 

 afpect of the greateft aridity. Thefe little moun- 

 tains, fcattered over a low land, feemed at a dif- 

 tance 



