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with other hills near it, presents some resemblance to the Lion's Flinders. 
Head and Rump at the Cape of Good Hope. This island and two 1798 * 
rocky islets lying off its south-east end were afterwards called the 
Babel Isles. The largest is covered with tufted grass and brush 
wood; and the whole appeared to be much frequented by shags, 
sooty petrels, and other sea birds. 
We had scarcely passed the Babel Isles, when the wind, which 
had been at W. by S., chopped round to the southward, with squally 
weather, and drove the schooner off to the north-east. In the night 
it became less unfavourable; and at noon of the loth, our latitude 
was 40 0 3 ±' ; the isles bore N. 78 0 W., three or four leagues, and 
the high land of Cape Barren S. 13° to 34° W. Having a fair wind 
in the afternoon, we passed along the outskirts of the Bay of Shoals, 
without perceiving any breakers; but in the space between the 
great island and the land of Cape Barren there were many rocks, 
and a low island of three or four miles long, with a hill in the middle! 
lay at the entrance of the opening. 
The high part of Cape-Barren Island, but particularly the peak, 
may be seen eleven, and perhaps more leagues from a ship's deck. 
The extremity of the cape is a low point, which runs out two miles 
east from the high land ; and off this point lies a flat, rocky islet 
and a peaked rock The shore is sandy on each side of the Cape 
point : it trends N. 40 0 W., for about five miles, on one side, and 
s - 49° W., past two sandy bights on the other, to a rocky projection 
on which are two whitish cones, shaped like rhinoceros' horns. 
We steered south-westward, in the evening, round the Cape point, 
and were sufficiently close to hear the bellowing, of the seals upon 
the islet. Arrived off Cone Point, the schooner was hauled off shore ; 
and the wind becoming strong and unfavourable in the night, it was 
not until the evening of the 12th, that we got to anchor in Hamilton's 
Road, at the east end of Preservation Island. This road is sheltered 
from all winds, except between south and S. S. E. ; and these do not 
