66 COOK’s VOYAGE, 
pefted from the courfe we fleered, for we were diftant at leafl 
feven leagues ; I therefore hauled in N. W. by W. with a freih 
gale at S. S. W. The land that was fartheft to the north the 
night before, now bore S. S. W. diftant fix leagues, and I gave 
it the name of Cape Moreton, it being the north point of 
Moreton’s Bay : its latitude is 26 : 56, and its longitude is 
206 : 28. From Cape Moreton the land trends away weft, 
farther than can be feen, for there is a fmall fpace, where at 
this time no land is vifible, and fome onboard having alfo ob- 
ferved that the fea looked paler than ufual, we were of opinion 
that the bottom of Moreton’s Bay opened into a river : we had 
here thirty-four fathom water, and a fine fandy bottom : this 
alone would have produced the change that had been obferved 
in the colour of the water ; and it was by no means neceflary 
to fuppofe a river to account for the land at the bottom of the 
bay not being vifible, for fuppofing the land there to be as low as 
we knew it to be in an hundred other parts of the coaft, it would 
have been impoffible to fee it from the ftation of the lhip ; how- 
ever, if any future navigator fhould be difpofed to determine 
the queftion, whether there is or is not a river in this place, 
which the wind would not permit us to do, the fituation may 
always be found by three hills, which lie to the northward of 
it, in the latitude of 26 : 53. Thefe hills lie but a little way 
inland, and not far from each other : they are remarkable for 
the fingulaj- form of their elevation, which very much re- 
fembles a glafs-houfe, and for which reafon I called them the 
Gla,ss Houses : the northermoft of the three is the higheft 
and largeft : there are alfo feveral other peaked hills, inland to 
the northward of thefe, but they are not nearly fo remarkable. 
At noon, our latitude was, by obfervation, 26 : 28 S. which 
was ten miles to the northward of the log, a circumftance 
which had never before happened upon this coaft ; our longi- 
tude was 206 : 46. At this time we were between two and 
three leagues from the land, and had twenty-four fathom wa- 
ter. A low bluff poiut, which was the fouth head of a fandy 
bay, bore N. 62 W. diftant three leagues, and the northermoft 
point of land in fight bore N. £ E, This day we faw fmoke 
in feveral places, and fome at a confiderable diftance inland. 
In fleering along the fhore, at the diftance of two leagues, 
our foundings were from twenty-four to thirty-two fathom, 
with a fandy bottom. At fix in the evening, the northermoft 
point of land bore N. | W. diftant four leagues ; at ten it 
bore N. W. by W. \ W. and as we had feen no land to the 
northward of it, we brought to, not well knowing which way 
to fleer. 
At two in the morning, however, we made fail with the 
wind at S. W. and at day-light, we faw the land extending as 
far as N. | E. the point we had fet the night before bore S. VV. 
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