50 A VOYAGE TO [South Coast. 
I801. Latitude observed, - - 34 32^ S. 
Monday 7. Longitude by time keepers, - - 115 go E. 
C. Leeuwin, furthest visible part, - N. 55 W. 
The low, black point, - - N. 4 W. 
Furthest extreme of the coast a-head, S. 53 E. 
The shore abreast was seven or eight miles distant ; and be- 
hind it ran a continuation of the same ridge of sandy hillocks which 
surrounds the bight, and it extended to the southern extreme. Over 
this ridge were perceived, here and there, the tops of some higher, 
and less sandy hills, standing a few miles inland ; but the general 
aspect of the country was that of great sterility ; nor was there, as 
yet, any appearance of its being inhabited. 
Soon after four we passed the noon's extreme at the distance 
of four miles. It is a steep, rocky cape, named in the French chart, 
Point D'Entrecasteaux ; and is one of the most remarkable projec- 
tions of this coast. I make its latitude, from the bearings, to be 
34° 52' south, and longitude by time keepers 1 16 0 1' east. A 
low rock lies two or three miles to the east-south-east, from the 
point, and a patch of breakers nearly the same distance to the south ; 
and soon after passing the point, two other rocks, white and rather 
high, were seen lying from it five leagues to the south-east. At a 
quarter past seven, when the night closed in, 
The two white rocks bore - - N. 20 0 E. 
Furthest extreme of the land, like a steep head, N. 71 E. 
The wind was then at south-west, and, we stretched onward 
Tuesday s. until one in the morning, before tacking to the north-west for the 
land. At day light, the ship was found to have been carried to the 
eastward, and neither Point D'Entrecasteaux nor the two white 
rocks were in sight ; but in the N. 19" E., about eight miles, was a 
head not far from the extreme set in the evening. It afterwards 
proved to be a smooth, steep rock, lying one mile from the main ; 
and is the land first made upon this coast by captain Vancouver, 
