THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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Eaft, and proved to be the trade wind. At ten, Mr. 1779. 
Trevenen, one of the young gentlemen who came along 
with me into the Difcovery, faw land appearing, like a 
peaked mountain, and bearing South Weft. At noon, the 
latitude, by obfervation, was 24 0 37'', longitude 142 0 2'. 
The land, which we now difcovered to be an ifland, bore 
South Weft half Weft, diftant eight or ten leagues; and 
at two in the afternoon, we faw another to the Weft: 
North Weft. This fecond ifland, when feen at a diftance, 
has the appearance of two ; the South point confifting 
of a high conical hill, joined by a narrow neck to the 
Northern land, which is of a moderate height. As this 
was evidently of greater extent than the ifland to the South, 
we altered our courfe toward it. At four, it bore North Weft 
by Weft; but, not having day-light fufficient to examine 
the coaft, we ftood upon our tacks during the night. 
On the 15th, at flx in the morning, we bore away for Monday 15. 
the South point of the larger ifland, at which time we dif¬ 
covered another high ifland, bearing North three quarters 
Weft, the South ifland being on the fame rhomb line, and 
the South point of the ifland ahead, Weft by North. At 
nine, we were abreaft, and within a mile of the middle 
ifland, but Captain Gore, finding that a boat could not land 
without fome danger from the great furf that broke on the 
fhore, kept on his courfe to the Weftward. At noon, our 
latitude, by obfervation, was 24 0 50', longitude 140° 56' 
Eaft. 
This ifland is about five miles long, in a North North 
Eaft, and South South Weft direction. The South point is 
a high barren hill, flattilh at the top, and, when feen from 
the Weft South Weft, prefents an evident volcanic crater. 
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