4&0 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



them, fwimming in a body, executing with great 

 rapidity nearly the fame movements. 



We continued lying to during the night, in- 

 tending the next day to make the land a degree 

 to the northward of the latitude of Cape Die- 

 men. We were in hopes to difcovcr there a 

 harbour, that might in future afford groat ad- 

 vantages *o navigators who intended to explore 

 the fputb-weft ut" N. w Holland, by taking ad- 

 vantage of the eafter.lv winds. . 



At four o'clock in the morning of the iqth 

 we faw the laud extending from north-eait by 

 jiurth to caft by fouth, the .: coaft bearing 



eaft north-eaft, at the diilance of three myria- 

 meters. 



The wind was at fouth- weft ; we flood on for 

 fome time clofe hauled on the flarboard tack. 

 Two hours" after, when we were only a rayria- 

 meter and a half from the fhore, we had fifty 

 fathoms water over a bottom of very coarfe fand 

 and broken fhells. 



We beheld a fleep coafl, an4 at a little diflance 

 a chain of mountains of mode. ate elevation, 

 which followed nearly the fame direction : this 

 land was almoft every where covered with large 

 trees. 



At noon we were in latitude 42 51' fouth, and 

 longitude 142 49' eaft ; the lands to the north- 

 paft Ihcjwed themfelves only through a thick mifl, 



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