A VOYAGE TO 
fore he thouglit worthy to be honoured with the name 
of Pitt Water. , This, as well as the fouth-wefl: branch, 
is of fufEcient extent to contain all the navy of Great 
Britain. But on a narrow bar which runs acrofs the 
■entrance it has only eighteen feet depth at low water. 
Within the bar there are from feven to fifteen fathoms. 
The land is not fo high in this part as in the fouth-wefl: 
branch, and there are fome good fituations where the 
land might be cultivated. Small fprings of water were 
feen in moft of the coves, and three cafcades falling from 
heights, vv'hich the rains at that time rendered inac- 
cefTible. - 
In this excurfion fome interviews with the natives took 
place. When the party firft landed in Broken Bay feveral 
women came down to the beach with the men. One of 
thefe, a young womaOj was very talkative and remarkably 
cheerful. This v/as a lingular inftance, for in general 
they are obferved on this coaft to be much lefs cheerful 
than the men, and apparently under great av/e and fub- 
jeciion. They certainly are not treated with much ten- 
dernefs, and it is thought that they are employed chieliy 
in the canoes, in which women have frequently been 
feen with very young children at the breafl. The lively 
young lady, when flie joined the party the fecond day 
in her canoe, flood up and gave a fong which was far 
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