iSo AVOYAGETO 
CH,^ eafternmofl point of it fouth fouth-eaft half eaft, and the 
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* — " — ' fouth point of Norfolk Hie north-eaft. The pine trees 
on this ifland are of an imnienfe lize, meafuring from 
twenty to twenty-feven and even thirty feet in girth, 
and fo tall that it was not eafy to form any exadt 
judgment of their height. This place affords vaft 
numbers of cabbage trees, and amazing quantities of 
iifli may be procured on the banks that lie on 
the weft fide of the fmall ifland ; thofe they got on 
board the Supply were of the fnapper kind, and very 
good, yet they were caught in fuch abundance that 
many of the people were as much fatiated with them as 
the failors are with cod on the banks of Newfound- 
land. 
The only places where it was found pra6licable to land 
was a-breaft of their firft ftation (which is the place de- 
fcribed by Captain Cook, and where the people landed with 
the utmoft difficulty,) and at Sydney Bay on the fouth 
end of the ille, the outer breaker off the wefternmofb 
point in light bearing north-weit by weft half weft. 
Lord Howe Ifland was difcovered by Lieutenant 
Henry Lidgbird Ball, Commander of his Majefty's ten- 
der Supply, on the 17th February, 1788, and was fo 
named by him, in honour of the Right Honourable Lord 
Howe. At the fame time he obferved a remarkably 
high 
