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very elofe to that land, though it did not happen to be c h . 
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difcerned : probably it is low at that extremity. : , . v 
At nooDj on Thurfday the 31ft? land was difcovered, 
bearing from north half weft to eaft-north-eaft, and dif- 
tant about five or fix leagues. As the fhip was now in 
latitude 10°. 52'. fouth, Lieutenant Shortland at firft 
eonjed:ured it might be Egmont Ifiand, which was 
feen by Capt. Carteret, notwithftanding a confiderable 
difference in longitude, which might be accounted for from 
the effed; of currents, as they had been for fome time very 
ftrong. The longitude laid down by Captain Carteret 
was 164''. 49'. eaft ; that of the Alexander at this time ~ 
about 161°. 11'. It proved however that the difference 
was real, and that this was another ifiand. Lieu-- 
tenant Shortland now kept a north-weft courfe, in? 
which direction the land trended. He ran along the 
coaft about fix or feven leagues, and found it formed' 
into an illand by two points, the foutli-eaft of which 
he called Cape Sydney^ the north-weft, Cape Phillip. 
Having palled this point, he continued fteering in: 
a north-weft diredlion till about feven o'clock the 
fame afternoon, when the men who were reefing the 
top-farls for the night, difcovered land bearing ex- 
adly in the fhip's courfe. On receiving: this intelligencei 
he immediately brought to, with the. iliip's head off 
from the land, and gave a fignal for the Friendfliip to. 
