WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
to vifit, hereafter; this extenfive coaft, as to navigation at 
large. The alTiftance of Lieutenant Bradley, firft of the 
Sirius, (who likewife is an officer of more than common 
abilities), as a navigator in condudling a convoy in a track fo 
little known, muft have been pleafing to Captain Hun- 
ter. 
As we run in with the land, which is pretty high, 
we were furprifed to fee, at this feafon of the year, fome 
fmall patches of fnow. The haze being difperfed, by 
a gentle breeze at N. N. W. we could obferve, and hear, 
as we were not more than fix or feven miles from the fhore, 
the furf beating high and loudly againft fome uneven 
rocks which jutted out, in flrange projections, into the fea. 
This part of the coaft, as far as we could fee, is bold, 
irregular, and craggy; and very few trees, or appearance of 
verdure, to be feen. At four in the afternoon, being 
about fix or eight miles to the eaftward of the eaftward- 
moft rock, called the Mewftone (there being feveral others 
which we diftindly faw), bearing N. N. W. we difcovered 
to the weflward of them fome eminences, which probably 
might be iflands ; or, if not, fome land running a confi- 
derable way into the fea. For my own part I am inclined 
to 
