2o6 A VOYAGE TO THE 



^ "x^ ^' ^^^ fliips run, we agreed to a mile with the longitude, 

 w,,-, — ^ which Captain Cook has laid the South Weft point down 



April. in. 



Tuefday 24. 



It may not be amifs to obferve, that all fhips coming 

 into this harbour ought to keep the jQiore of Montague 

 Ifland on board as clofe as they can ; for if they get off 

 into the channel, and over towards the Weft fl:iore, they 

 will foon bring Hxty, feventy, and eighty fathoms water, 

 and that depth too clofe in ihore for anchoring. 



Towards one o'clock an appearance of a good bay or 

 harbour prefented itfelf on the Montague Ifland fhore, to- 

 wards which I dired:ed my courfe. This bay is fituated 

 five or fix leagues within the South Weft point of Mon- 

 tague Ifland, and nearly a-breaft on the ifland that forms 

 the Weft fide of the Channel. At two o'clock the whale- 

 boat was fent to found and examine the bay. In the fpace 

 of an hour ihe returned, and the ofiicer who was in her 

 reported that the fhips could ride in it with fafety. On 

 this I hauled in for it, and anchored at four o'clock in 

 twenty fathoms water over a muddy bottom. We moored 

 with the beft bower in twenty- one fathoms over the 

 fame bottom. In running into the bayjuft off the South 

 point, we had feven and eight fathoms water over a 

 bottom of black mud and fand. This bank appeared to 

 run nearly acrofs the mouth of the bay, and, after pafling 

 it, we deepened the water to twenty-one fathoms, in which 

 depth we anchored. When moored, the South point of 

 the bay bore South Weft by South two miles and a half, 

 and the North point North North Weft half Weft, two 

 miles diftant, our diftance from the neareft fliore about 



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