Cape Hillsborough. jf 
land in fight, and a number of iflands all round us, Tome of 
which lay out at fea as far as the eye could reach. The vvef- 
tern inlet, which in the chart is dillinguifhed by the name of 
Broad Sound, vve had now all open ; at the entrance, is at 
leail nine or ten leagues wide : in it, and before it lie feveral 
iilands, and probably lhoals alfo ; for our foundings were very 
irregular, varying luddenly from ten to four fathom. At noon, 
cur latitude by obiervation was 21 : 29 S. ; ji point of land 
which forms the north weft entrance into Broad Sound, and 
which I have named Cape Palmerston, lying in latitude 
2 1 : 30, longitude 2CO : 14 W. bore W. by N. diftant three 
leagues. Our latitude was 21 : 27, our longitude 210 : 57. 
Between this Cape and Cape Townlhend lies the bay which I 
have called the Bay of Inlets. We continued to ftand to 
the N. W. and N. W. by N. as the land lay, under an eafy 
fail, having a boat ahead to found : at firft the foundings were 
very irregular, from nine to four fathom ; but afterwards they 
were regular, from nine to eleven. At eight in the evening, 
being about two leagues from the main land, we anchored in 
eleven fathom, with a Tandy bottom ; and foon after we found 
the tide fetting with a flow motion to the weftward. Atone 
o’clock it was flack or low- water ; and at half an hour after 2 
the fhip tended to the eaftward, and rode fo till fix in the mor- 
ning, when the tide had rifen eleven feet. We now got un- 
der fail, and flood away in the dire£lion of the coaft, N. N. 
W. From what we had obferved of the tide during the night, 
it is plain, that the flood came from the N. W. ; whereas the 
preceeding day, and feveral days before, it came from the S. 
E. ; nor was this the firft, or even fecond time that we had 
remarked the fame thing. At fun-rife this morning, we found 
the variation to be 6 : 45 E. ; and in fleering along the fhore, 
between the ifland and the main, at thediftance of about two 
leagues from the main, and three or four from the ifland, our 
foundings were regular from twelve to nine fathom ; but about 
eleven o’clock in the forenoon we were again embarafled in 
fhoal water, having at one time not more than three fathom ; 
yet we got clear without calling anchor. At noon we were 
about two leagues from the main, and four from the iflands 
without us. Our latitude by ob ervation was 20 : 56, and a 
high promontory, which I named Cape Hillsborough, 
bore W. \ N. diftant feven miles. The land here is diverfl- 
fied by mountains, hills, plains, and valleys, and feems to be 
well clothed with herbage and wood : the iflands which lie 
parallel to the coaft, and from five to eight or nine miles dif- 
tant, are of various height and extent ; fcarcely any cf them 
-are more than five leagues in circumference, and many are not 
four miles: befides this chain, of iflands, which lie at ' a dif- 
tance from the coaft, there are others much left, which lie un- 
