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A VOYAGE 1' O 
CHAP, points were joined togetlier by a low neck of land covered 
— with trees. As the land rofe in nine roundilli points, 
v/hich feamen call hummocks, this place was named 
Nine Hummock Bay, At noon on this day, the fhip then 
ftanding to the fouth-weft, in latitude 8''. 55'. fouth, and 
longitude 158°. 14'. eaft, the extreme points of land 
bore from eaft by north to wefl, when Lieutenant Short- 
land named the weftern point Cape Nepean, and the 
eaftern Cape Pitt, The intermediate land may, he fays, 
ealily be known by the nine hummocks, and the exa6l 
refemblance they bear to iflands when feen from the dif- 
tance of five or fix leagues. They had now light airs 
and calm weather, but at two in the afternoon a breeze 
fprung up from the eaftward, and at four Cape Nepean 
bore north-v/eft, half weft, diftant five or ftx leagues.,. 
At fix the Alexander fliortened fail, and ftood off and on 
for the night under double reefed top-fails, Lieutenant 
■ Shortland imagining that he had reached the utmoft 
extent of this land. At five, on Monday morning, the 
Augufi4, 4tb of Auguft, he made fail again, and at fix a bluff 
point of the ifland bore north-north-weft, diftant five or 
fix leagues : this he called Point P leaf ant. At noon the 
latitude was by obfervation 8°. 54. fouth, the longitude 
154°. 44'. eaft. Point Pleafant then bore eaft by nortli ; 
at four, the moft weftern point of land in fight, which 
was then fuppofed to be the extreme point of the ifiand^ 
but: 
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