118 A VOYAGE TO [South Coast. 
FebraSy. althou g n Aere be a difference of near half a degree in latitude. 
The next leading mark is the line of islands marked 1, 2, to 5, 
extending south-south-east from the furthest extremity of the 
main land. I found no islands corresponding to the first three of 
these ; but the main coast there trends south-east, and there are 
cliffy projections upon it which might appear like islands to a ship 
so far distant as not to raise the intermediate beaches. I conceive 
then, that the island marked 3, is the projecting point which 
I have named Point Bell ; and that 1 and 2 are the two cliffy pro- 
jections further northward. The island marked 4 will be the largest 
of Purdie's Isles ; and in looking on , nearly in the same line, we find 
,5 in Lacy's Island. The island 6, or St. Francis, should lie to the 
west-south- west, or perhaps south-west, for since the line of the five 
islands is two points too much to the right, this bearing may be the 
same. To the south-west-by-south the large Isle St. Francis is found, 
in the centre of eight smaller isles which Nuyts has not distinguished. 
The islands 8, 9, and io, are to be sought to the east-north-east of 
5, or Lacy's Island, or rather to the north-east, two points to the 
left ; and there we find, though not very exactly, Evans' Island 
and the two Isles of St. Peter. Island 7 should be to the north-west 
of 8, and in a direction between 4 and 9 ; and in that position is 
Lound's small Isle. 
This explanation, I am aware, may be disputed, because it 
leaves Franklin's Isles unnoticed; and it may be objected, that had 
Lound's Isle been seen, the main land north of it would have been 
seen also. That Nuyts passed to the southward of all the islands 
laid down in his chart seems improbable, since he distinguished only 
one of the Isles of St. Francis ; but if this be supposed, then 
7and 8 might be Evans' and Franklin's Isles, and 9 and 10 would 
be Point Brown and Cape Bauer, which lie to the south-east, 
instead of north-east ; and in this case the islands which I suppose 
to be St. Peter's, and that of Lound, will not have been seen. The 
question is, in fact, of no importance, other than what arises from a 
