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with which the horizon was very much darkened 

 on all fides. 



The variation of the compafs had increafed 

 very rapidly fincc it had become eafterly, for, oa 

 the 20th, it was obferved to be 7 eaft. 



The coaft prefentcd no bight that could make 

 us prefume that we lhould there meet with a 

 good anchorage. At noon we had already 

 reached the latitude of 45 22' fouth, and longi- 

 tude of 143 28' eafl ; we were only a myriame- 

 ter from the land, and from north half weft to 

 eaft fouth-eaft it offered to our view fomc rather 

 lofty mountains. 



At fix o'clock in the afternoon we doubled the 

 South Cape, at the diftance of two myriametcrs. 

 It is remarkable that in all the different finuofi- 

 ties of the coaft which we had juft followed, wc 

 hadconftantlyliad the wind right aft. It feems to 

 me that the high mountains, oppofing a barrier to 

 the winds, force them to keep along the coaft. 



We difcovered, above all the other mountains, 

 that which we had fcen covered with fnow, the 

 preceding year, at the period of our anchoring in 

 Port D'Entrecalleaux ; but as we were now in 

 the feafon of the greateft heats, we no longer per- 

 ceived any fnow but in the large excavations, where 

 it was fheltered from the rays of the fun during a 

 great part of the day : this mountain is remark- 

 able 



