■Vt)'. 
VOYAGE TO 
c H A P. ti^e fame. They lay to all night, and the next morn- 
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— — ' ino: were furprized with the fieht of a naoft mountainous 
Augufi: 1, 0 1 o 
^i^'^- coaft, bearing from north-eafc by caft to weft- north- weft, 
about five or fix leagues diftant. This proved fufficiently 
that the land feen the preceding day could not be Eg- 
mont Ifland, and Lieutenant Shortiand was inclined to 
think that this was united to it. At fix in the morning 
he bore away weft by north, and v/eft by north half 
northj as the land trended, running along the ftiore at 
five or fix leagues diftance. The moft eaftern point of 
this land he called Cape HenJIozv, the moft weftern w^hich 
was then in fight, Cape Hunter* Between thefe two 
points the land is very fingularly mountainous, the fum- 
mits of the mountains rifing among the clouds to a pro- 
digious height. It may be known by one fummit more 
elevated than the reft, which, from being difcovered on 
the firft of Auguft, was named Mount Lammas, and is 
thought in height to equal, if not to exceed the Peak of 
TenerifFe. This day the latitude was by obfervation 
9°. 58'. fouth, and the longitude 160°. 21'. eaft. More 
land ftill continued to open to the weft-north- weft, and 
the fame courfe was therefore kept at an equal diftance 
from the flrore till three in the afternoon, when the 
water appearing fuddenly of a different colour, they 
brought to, and founded, but found no ground at 
120 fathoms. At four, a part of the land which had 
,the appearance of a harbour, bore north-nortli-eaft dif- 
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