462 VfltAGE IN SKARCff 



able for a fmall peak in the fhape ofa cone, which 

 terminates its lummit 



On the approach of night we paffed pretty 

 clofe to the Mewftone, and lhortly alter we 

 brought to, having a frcfli breeze at weft. 



We founded feveral times, with a line of 

 eighty three fathom?, without getting bottom. 



As we were hemmed in on the coal! , by the 

 wind fhifting to the fouth fouth- weft, we were 

 forced to ply to windward. 



At noon we had obferved, in latitude 43 44' 

 fouth, our longitude being 144 16'eaft, when 

 we fct the Mewftone, bearing weft \ 6 30' fouth, 

 and the Eddyfionc fouth fouth eafr i eaft. The 

 nearcft coaft then bore north north-well, diftant 

 three kilometers. 



Very early in the morning of the 2 2d, we were 

 at the entrance of Storm Bay. The wind was 

 at fouth fouth-eaft, and prevented us from enter- 

 ing D'Entrecaftcaux's Strait, where we had an 

 intention of going to anchor, in a cove which 

 wehad furvcyed the year before, and which was 

 extremely convenient for giving our mips all the 

 repairs of which they flood in need ; but we 

 were obliged to enter a bay, which fome rocks 

 almo(t even with the water's edge, fltuated near 

 its middle, determined us to call La Baie des 

 Baches, Rocky Bay ; this is the firft cove that is 

 met with on the larboard hand on entering Storm 



Bay, 



