Double Island Point. 67 
by W. dillant between three and four leagues. It lies in la- 
titude 25 : 58, longitude 206 : 48 W. : the land within it is 
of a moderate and equal height, but the point itlelf is fo unequal 
that it looks like t.vo fmall iflands lying under the land, for 
which reafon I gave it the name of Double Island Point ; 
it may alfo be known by the white cliffs on the north fide of it. 
Here the land trends to the N. W. and forms a large open bay, 
the bottom of which is fo low a flat that from the de.k it could 
fcarcely be feen. In eroding this bay, our depth of water was 
from thirty to twenty-two fathom, with a white fandy bottom. 
At noon we were about three leagues from the fhore, in lati- 
tude 25 : 34 S. longitude 206 : 45 W. : Double Ifland Point 
bore S. ~ W. and the northermod land in fight N. \ E. This 
part of the coaft, which is of a moderate height, is more bar- 
ren than any we had feen, and the foil more fandy. Withourglaf- 
fes we could difeover that the fands, which lay in great patches 
of many acres, were moveable, and that fome of them had not 
been long in the place they poffeffed ; for we faw in feveral 
parts, the trees half buried, the tops of which were Hill green; 
and in others, the naked trunks of fuch as the fand had fur- 
rounded long enough to deftroy. In other places the woods 
appeared to be low and fhrubby, and we faw no figns of in- 
habitants. T wo water fnakes fwam by the fhip : they were 
beautifully fpotted, and in every refpeft like land fnakes, ex- 
cept that their tails were broad and flat, probably to ferve 
them initead of fins in fwimming. In the morning of this 
day, the variation was 8 : 20 E. and in the evening, 8 : 36. 
During the night, we continued our courfe tQ the northward, 
with a light breeze from the land, being diftant from it be- 
tween two and three leagues, and having from twenty-three to 
twenty-feven fathom, with a fine fandy bottom. 
At noon, on the 19th, we were about four miles from the 
land, with only thirteen fathom. Our latitude was 25 : 4, 
and the northermod and inflight bore N. 2 1 W. d’ftant eight 
miles. At one o’clock, being dill four miles didant from the 
fhore, but having feventeen fathom water, we paffed a black 
bluff head, or point of land, upon which a great number of the 
natives were affembled, and which therefore I called Indian 
Head: it lies in latitude 25 : 3. About four miles N. by 
W. of this Head, is another very like it, from whence the 
land trends away fomewhat more to the wedward : next to the 
fea it is low and fandy, and behind it nothing was to be feen, 
even from the mad-head; Near Indian Head we faw more of 
the natives, and upon the neighbouring fhore fires by night, 
and fmoke by day. We kept to the northward all night, at 
the didance of from four miles to four leagues from the ihore, 
and with a depth of water from feventeen to thirty-four fa- 
thom. At day- break, the northermod land bore from us W. 
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