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eye can reach, nothing appears but the fummits of rocks, 
which (land fo near together, that inflfead of Vallies there are 
only Allures between them. From the latitude of 44 : 20, t* 
the latitude of 42 : 8, thefe mountains lie farther inland, and 
the fea coail confifts of woody hills and vallies, of various height 
and extent, and has much appearance of fertility : many of the 
vallies form plains of cor.fiderable extent, wholly covered with 
wood, but it is very probable that the ground, in many places, 
is fwampy and interfperfed with pools of water. From lati - 
tude 42 : 8, to 41 : 30, the land is not dillirguilhed by any- 
thing remarkable : it rifes into hills direftly from the fea, and 
is covered with wood ; but the weather being foggy while we 
were upon this Part of the coaft, we could fee very little in- 
land, except now and then the fummits of the mountains, tow- 
ing above the cloudy mills that obfeured them below, which 
confirmed my opinion that a chain of mountain's extended 
■ from one end of the illand to the other. 
In the afternoon we had a gentle breeze at S. W. which, 
i before it was quite dark, brought us abrealt of the eailern 
point, which we had feen at noon ; but not knowing what 
courfe the land took on the other fide of it, we brought to in 
thirty-four fathom, at the dillance of about one league from 
the Ihcre. At eight in the evening, there being little wind, 
• we filled and Hood on till midnight, and then we brought to 
. till four in the morning t when we again made fail, and at 
• break of day we faw low land extending from the point to 
the S. S. E. as far as the eye could reach, the eailern extremi- 
ty of which appeared in round hillocks: by this time the “gale 
had veered to the eallward, which obliged us to ply to wind- 
ward. At noon, next day, the eailern point bore S. W. by 
S. dillant fixteen miles, and our latitude was 40: 19: the 
wind continuing eallerly, we were nearly in the fame fituation 
at noon on the day following. About 3 o’clock the wind came 
to the wellward, and we lleered E. S. E. with all the fail we 
could fet till it was dark, and then Ihortened fail till the 
morning : as we had thick hazey weather all night, we kept 
founding continually, and had from thirty-feven to forty-two 
fathom. When the day broke we faw land bearing S. E. by E, 
and an illand lying near it, bearing E. S. E. dillant about five 
leagues : this iilaud I knew to be the fame that I had feen 
from the entrance of Queen Charlotte’s SounS, from which ic 
.bears N. W. by N. dillant nine leagues. At noon, it bore 
fouth, dillant four or five miles, and the north well head of 
the Sound S. E. by S. dillant ten leagues and an half. Our 
latitude, by obfervation, was 40 : 33 S-. 
As we had now circumnavigated the whole country, it be- 
came neceflary to think of quitting it ; but as I had thirty tons 
of empty water calks on board, this could not be done till I 
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