VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
to believe the latter to be the cafe ; though the diftance 
was too great to hazard a concluUve opinion upon it, 
as a large fmoke was feen clofe to the innermoft height. 
About feven, fleering to the eaftward, along fhore, 
nearly at the diftance of four miles, being well in with the 
weflward-moft point of a very large bay, called Storm Bay, 
laid down in lat. 44" 3 S. and long. 146° E. we difcovered 
Swilly bearing S. E. j S. and a little to the eaflward of it 
a fmall rock rifing out of the fea, diflinguifhed by the 
name of the Eddyftone, from its refemblance to the Eddy- 
ftone light-houfe off Plymouth, which was very per- 
ceptible at the diflance we were then from it. Our 
being clofe in with the land, prevented us from feeing 
either of thefe before, as they lie at leaft fix or feven 
leagues out to fea. From the S. W. cape, which lies 
in lat. 43° 39' S. and long. 145" 50' E. to the S. E. cape, 
which is admitted, to be Tafman's South Cape, is about 
the diftance of fifteen or fixteen leagues. As we got 
to the eaftward, we favv many trees, moftiy of a dwarf or 
ftunted kiad, with a whitifli bark, and perfectly leaflefs. 
This part of the country ftill continued to be a rough, 
rugged, uneven trad, with very little appearance of fertility. 
Some 
