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VOYAGE round the WORLD. 
BOOK IT. 
CHAPTER VII. 
A T four o’clock in the afternoon, of Friday the 9 th of 
February, having tacked, we Hood S. W. and con- 
tinued to make fail to the fouthward till funfet on the 
1 ith, when a freih breeze at N. E. had carried us back again 
the length of Cape Pallifer, of which, as the weather was 
dear, we had a good view. Between the foot of the high 
land and the fea there is a low flat border, off which there are 
feme rocks that appear above water. Between this Cape and 
Cape Turnagain, the land near the Ihore is, in many places, 
low and flat, and has a green and pleafant appearance ; but 
farther from the fea it rifes into hills. The land between 
Cape Pallifer and Cape Tierawitte is high, and makes in table- 
points ; it alfo feemed to us to form two bays, but we were at 
too great a diftance from this part of the coail, to judge ac- 
curately from appearances. The wind having been variable 
with calms, we had adv; -.ced no farther by the izth at noon 
than latitude 41 : 52, Cape Pallifer then bearing north, diilant 
about five leagues ; and the fnowy mountain S, 83 W. 
At noon on the 13th, we found ourl'elves in the latitude of 
42 : 2 S. ; Cape Pallifer bearing N. 20 E. 'diftant eight 
leagues. In the afternoon a frefh gale fprung up at N. E. and 
we fleered S. W. by W. for the fouthermofl land in fight, 
which at funfet bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the va- 
riation was 1 5 : 4 E. 
At eight o’clock in the morning of the 14th, having run 
one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. since the preceeding noon, 
it fell calm. We were then abreafl of the fnowy mountain, 
which bore .from us N. W. and in this direction lay behind a 
mountainous ridge of nearly the fame height, \vhi:h rifes di- 
redtly from the fea, and runs parallel with the ihore, which 
lies N. E. { N. and S. W. \ S. The north well end of the 
ridge rifes inland, not far from Cape Campbell ; and bpth 
the mountain and the ridge are diflinct.lv lien as well from 
Cape Koamaroo as Cape tCUijhr : tfTOjnrtmumaroo they are 
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