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very irregular, from twenty-two to eight fathom. At half an 
hour after fix, we anchored in thirteen fathom : the norther- 
moft of the fmall iflands feen at noon bore W. \ S. diftant 
th ree miles : thefe ill mds are diftinguifhed in the chart .by the 
name of Forbes’s Islands, and lie about five leagues from 
the main, which here forms a high point that we called Bolt 
Mead, from which the land trends more welterly, and is in 
that diredtion all low and fand)* ; to the fouthward it is high 
and hilly, even near the fea. 
At fix in the morning we got again under fail, and fleered 
for an ifland which lay at a fmall diftance from the main, and 
at this time bore from us N. 40 W. diftant about five leagues : 
our courfe was foon interrupted by Ihoals ; however, by the 
help of the boats, and a good look-out from the top of the 
malt, we got into a fair channel that led us down to the ifland, 
between a very large flioal on our ftarboard fide, and feveral 
fmall ones towards the main : in this channel we had from 
twenty to thirty fathom water. Between eleven and twelve 
o’clock we hauled round the north eaft fide of the ifland, leav- 
ing it between us and the main, from which it is diftant about 
feven or eight miles. This ifland is about a league in circuit, 
and we faw upon it five of the natives, two of whom had 
lances in their hands ; they came down upon a point, and hav- 
ing looked a little while at the ftiip, retired. To the N. W. 
of it are feveral low iflands and quays, which lie not far from 
the main ; and to the northward and eaftward are feveral other 
iflands and ihoals ; lo that we were now encompafled on every 
fide ; but having lately been expofed to much greater danger, 
and rocks and ihoals being grown familiar, we looked at them 
comparatively with little concern. The main land appeared to 
be low and barren, interfperfed with large patches of very fine 
white fand, which we had founa upon Lizard Ifland and dif- 
ferent parts of the main. The boats had feen many turtle 
upon the ihoals which they paffed, but it blew toq hard for 
them to take any. At noon our latitude by obfervation was 
12 0 , and our longitude 21 7 0 25' : our depth of water was four- 
teen fathom ;'and our courfe and diftance, reduced to a ftrait 
line, was, between this time and the preceeding noon N. 29 
W. thirty-two miles. 
The main land within the iflands that have been juft men- 
tioned forms a point, which I dalled Cape Grenville : it 
lies in latitude 1 1° 58', longitude 217 0 38'; and between it 
and Bolt Hea^ is a bay, which I called Temple Bay. At 
the diftance of nine leagues from Cape Grenville, in the di- 
reiftion of E. \ N. lie fome high iflands, which I called Sir 
Charles Hardy’s Isles; and thofe which lie off the 
Cape I called Cockburn’s Isles. Having lain by for the 
boats, which had got out of thejur ftation, till about one o’clock, 
