Towards Hervey’s Bay.'] TERRA AUSTRALIS. 5 
from the low land, and in coming along the coast makes like an iso?, 
island ; its latitude is 28° 38', and longitude 153° 37', or 7' east of Sunday 25. 
the situation assigned to it by captain Cook. There are three rocks 
on its north side ; and in the direction of N. 57 0 W., eight or nine 
leagues from it, is the peaked top of a mass of mountains, named by 
its discoverer Mount JV arning ; whose elevation is about 3300 feet, 
and exceeds that of Mount Dromedary, or any other land I have seen 
upon this East Coast. JTo Mr. Westall’s sketch of this remarkable , (Atlas, 
peak it may be added, that the surrounding hills were well covered views.)’ 
with wood, whose foliage announced a soil more fertile than usual 
so near the sea side. , 
1 . lie sun was near setting at the time Cape Byron bore west, 
three or four miles ; and the coast from thence to Point Look-out 
having been seen by captain Cook, we steered off in order to avoid 
falling in with toe reefs of Point Danger in the night. At eleven, 
hauled more in for the land ; and at eight next day, Mount Warning Monday <ss. 
was set at s. 25* W., twenty leagues. On coming in with Point Look- 
out, I took observations for the latitude and longitude, which fixed 
it in 27 2 / south, and 153 0 31 east. I he latitude is the same as it 
had been made in the Norfolk, (Introd. p. cxcv), but is 19' south, 
and 3' west of the situation given in captain Cook’s chart. The 
bearings of the land at noon were, 
Point Look-out, distant 3 leagues, - S. cf W. 
Moreton entrance to Glass-house Bay, S. 55 W. 
Cape Moreton, distant six leagues, - N. 18 W. 
A strange vessel seen to the southward, had induced me to 
carry little sail all the morning ; it was now perceived not to be the 
Lady Nelson, but probably one of the two whalers known to be 
fishing off the coast; we therefore made sail for Cape Moreton, and 
came up with it at four o clock. I was much surprised to see a small, 
but dangerous reef lying between four and five miles off this cape 
to the north-east, which had not been noticed in the Norfolk ; in 
