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were about five miles from the land, and had twenty fathom 
water : we hauled up eaft till eight, when we had run eight 
miles, and increafed our depth of water to forty-four fathom : 
we then brought to, with the fhip’s head to the eaihvard, and 
lay upon this tack till ten, when, having increafed our found- 
ing to feventy-eight fathpm, we wore, and lay with the ihip’s 
head to the land till five in the morning, when we made fail, 
and at daylight we were greatly furprized to find ourfelves far- 
ther to the fouthward, than we had been the evening before, 
though the wind had been foutherlv, and blown frefh all 
night : we now faw the breakers again within 11s, and paffed 
them at the diftance of one league. They lie in latitude 28 : 
8 S. firetching ofF eafl two leagues, from a point of land, un- 
der which is a final 1 ifland. Their fituation may always be 
known by the peaked mountain which has been juft mentioned, 
and which bears from them S. W. by W. tor this reafon I have 
named it Mount Warning. It lies feven or eight leagues 
inland, in latitude 28 : 22 S. The land about it is high and 
hilly, but it is of itfelf fufficiently confpicuous to be at once 
diftinguifhed from every other object. The point off which 
thefe lhoals lie, I have na/ned Point Danger. To the 
northward of this point- the land is low, and trends N. W. by 
N. ; but it foon turns again more to the northward. 
At noon we were about two leagues from the land, and by 
obfervation, in latitude 27 : 46 S. which was feventeen miles 
to the fouthward of the log ; our longitude was 206 : 26 W. 
Mount Warning bore S. 26 V/. diftant 14 leagues, and the 
northermoft land in fight bore N. We purfued our courfe 
along the fhore, at the diftance of about two leagues, in the 
direction ofN. \ E. till between four and five in the after- 
noon, when we difcovered breakers on our larboard bow. 
Our depth of water was thirty-feven fathom, and at fun-fet, 
.the northermoft land bore N. by W. the breakers N. W. by 
W. diftant four miles, and the northermoft land fet at noon, 
which formed a point, and to which I gave the name ofPoiNT 
Look-out, W. diftant five or fix miles, in the latitude of 27 
6. On the north fide of this point, the fhore forms a wide 
open bay, which I called Moreton’s Bay, in the bottom of 
which the land is fo low that I could but juft fee it from the 
top-maft head. The breakers lie between three and four 
miles from Point Look-out ; and at this time we had a great 
fea from the fouth, which broke upon them very high. We 
flood on N. N. E. till e ght o’clock, when having paffed the 
breakers, and deepened our water to fifty-two fathom, we 
brought to till midnight, when we made fail again to the N. 
N. E. At four in the morning, we had 135 fathom, and 
when the day broke, I perceived that during the night I had 
got much farther northward, and from the fhore than I ex- 
F 3 pefled 
