10 
COOK’s VOYAGE 
has nothing remarkable about it, except a very white cliff, 
two or three leagues to the fouthward of it : to the fouthward 
of it alfo the land trends away to the S. E. and to the north- 
ward it trends N. N. E. 
Having brought to for the night, we made fail along the 
fhore at four in the morning, in the direction of N. E. \ N. 
with a moderate breeze at S. S. E. At noon, our latitude, by 
obfervation, was 45 : 13 S. At this time, being about a 
league and an half from the Ihore, we founded, but had no 
ground with feventy fathom : we had juft palled a fmall nar- 
row opening in land, where there fedmed to be a very fafe and 
convenient harbour, formed by an ifland, which lay in the 
middle of the opening at eaft. The opening lies in lat. 45: 16 S. 
and on the land behind it are mountains, the fummits of which 
were covered with fnow, that appeared to have been recently 
fallen ; and indeed for two days paft we had found the weather 
very cold. On each fide the entrance of the opening,, the land 
riles almoft perpendicularly from the fea to a ftupendous height, 
and this indeed was the reafon why I did not carry the Ihip in- 
to it, for no wind could blow there but right in, or right out, 
in the direction of either eaft or weft, and I thought it by no 
means advifeable to put into a place whence' I could not have 
got out but with a wind which experience had taught me did 
not blow more than one day in a month. ' In- this, however, 
I adted contrary to the opinion of lome perfons on board, who, 
in very ftrong terms, exprefted their daiire to harbour for pre- 
fent convenience, without any regard to future difadvantages. 
In the evening! being about two leagues from the Ihore, we 
founded, and had no ground with 108 fathom' : the variation 
of the needle, by azimuth, was 14 E. and by amplitude 15 
z. We made the bell of our way along the Ihore with what 
wind we had, keeping at the diftance of between two and three 
leagues. At noon, we were in latitude 44 : 47, having run 
only twelve leagues upon a N. E. | N. courfe, during the lall 
four and twenty hours. 
We continued to fteer along the Ihore, in the dire&ion of 
N. E. | E. till fix o’clock in die evening, when we brought 
to for the night. As four in the morning, v/e ftood in for 
the land, and w'hen the day broke we law v/hat appeared to be 
an inlet; but upon a nearer approach proved to be only a 
deep valley between two high lands : we proceeded therefore 
in the fame courfe, keeping the Ihore at the diftance of be- 
tween four and five miles. At noon on the 16th, the nor- 
thermoll point of land in fight bore N. 60 E. at the diftance 
of ten miles ; and our latitude, by obfervation, was 44 : 
our longitude from Cape Weft 2 : 8 E. About two, we paft 
the point which at noon had been diftant ten miles, and found 
it to conftft of high red cliffs, down which there fell a esfeade 
of water in four fmall ftreams, and I therefore gave it the name 
