414 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



with a pretty tranfparent fand refcmbling quartz: 

 this indication made me prcfume, that we fhould 

 have found as good a bottom in the bay which 

 we had juft pafled. 



During the whole night, an unclouded Iky 

 allowed us to ice the land, to which we kept pretty 

 clofe, always finding the fame fort of bottom. 



The wefterly wind not blowing very ftrong, at 

 half paft four o'clock in the morning of the 8th 

 we made fail, in order to range along the coaft, 

 which trended to the. north-caft ; prefently it 

 turned towards the eaft and the fouth-eaft. 



At eight o'clock we paffed opposite to a bay, 

 which appeared to us to be about three' myria- 

 metcrs in depth, its entrance being of at lead 

 equal extent : it is open to winds from the fouth- 

 eaft, and a fhip is fheltercd there againft wefterly 

 winds. Farther on we law in the offing fome 

 I rocks not far from the coaft. 



At noon we were in latitude 34 48'fouth, and 

 we obferved inland to the northward, a moun- 

 tain loftier than any of ti.ofe which we had fecn 

 on the prcccdi : infulatcd in the midft of 



vaft plains of fand, it produced a very piclurcfque 

 effect, and appeared about live myriameters dif- 

 tant from the coaft. Its rugged fummit exhibited 

 a jzreat many points very prominent, and for the 

 moft part perpendicular. Thcfe were difiin- 

 guifhable throughout the whole extent of the 

 5 mountain, 



