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leagues from Cape Grafton, is called in the chart. Green 
Island. 
As foon as the fliip was brought to an anchor, I went affiore, 
accompanied by Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander. As my prin- 
cipal view was to procure feme frefh water, and as the bot- 
tom of the bay was low land covered with mangroves, where ic 
Was not probable fre(h water was to be found, I went -out to- 
wards the cape, and found two fmall dreams, which however 
were rendered very difficult of accei's by th. furf and rocks upon 
the there : I faw alfo, as I came round the cape, a fmali dream 
of water run over the beach, in a fandy cove, but I did not 
go in with the boat, becaufe I faw that it would not be eafy 
to land. When we got adiore we found the country every 
where rifing into deep rocky hills, and as no frefh water ccuid 
conveniently be procured, Iwas unwilling tolofe time by going 
in fearch of lower land elfevvhere : we therefore made the bed of 
Our way back to the (hip, and about midnight we weighed and 
flood to the N. W. having but little wind, with fome fhowers 
of rain. At four in the morning, the breeze frelhened at S. 
by E. and the weather became fair : we continued deering N. 
N. W. i W. as the land lay, at about three leagues didance, 
with ten, twelve, and fourteen fathom water. At ten we 
hauled off north, in order to get without a fmall low island, 
which lay about two leagues didant from the main, and great 
part of which at this time, it being high water, was overflowed : 
about three leagues to the north wed of this iiland, clofe under 
the main land, is another idand, the land of which riies to a 
greater height, and which at noon bore from us N. 155 W. 
didant feven or eight miles. At this time our latitude was; 
16 : 20 S. Cape Grafton bore S. 29 E. didant 40 miles, and 
the r.orthermod point of land in fight N, 20 W. ; our depth 
of water was fifteen fathom. Between this point and Cape 
Grafton, the ihore forms a large, but not a very deep bay, 
which being difeovered on Trinity Sunday, I called Trini- 
ty Bay. 
CHAP. V. 
J) angcrous Situation of the Ship in htr Courfe from \ Trinity Bay to 
Endeavour River. 
H ITHERTO we had fafely navigated this dangerous 
coad, where the fea in all parts con .eals fhoals that fud- 
project from the fhore, and rocks that rife abruptly like 
a pyramid from the bottom, for an extent of two and twenty 
degrees of latitude, more than one thousand three hundred 
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