NEW SOUTH V/ A L E S. a^l 
and fometimes coarfe white fand, intermixed with chap, 
broken Ihells. , p... . , - : 'f.r r,.,. w. v— ^ 
.. . ,^ -, . . . , . May, !788. 
After leaving Norfolk Ifland, they ilretched to the 
northward and eaftward, and at one o'clock on the 
twenty- lixth they faw a fmall illand bearing north north- Monday 26. 
eafl eight or nine leagues diftant ; when about four 
miles from the ifland, they founded with fifty fathoms 
of line, but got no bottom. Towards evening, Captain 
Marfhall was clofe in with the ifiand, and being defirous 
to examine it, he plied occaflonally during the night. 
At day light the next morning, he was clofe to the Tuefdayz;. 
land, and found it to be a barren rock, not more than 
half a mile over in the broadeft part ; it is very high, 
and was entirely covered with birds of various kinds, 
but there was no pofiibility of landing on account of a 
frightful furf that entirely furrounded it. This rock ' 
was feen firft by Captain Gilbert, of the Charlotte, in 
the forenoon of the 26th, and named by him, Maubezv's 
JJland ; it is fituated in 2 2° 2 2' fouth latitude, and 170° 
41' longitude, eaft of Greenwich. 
On the 30th, in 17° 13' fouth latitude, and 172" 43' Monday .0. 
eafl longitude, they pafTed feveral large trees, and a num- 
ber of cocoa-nuts floating in the water, but no land was 
to be feen. Nothing occurred worthy of note till the . 
4th of June, when the water appearing coloured, they Wednefday4 
Kk 2 founded 
