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November. 
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A VOYAGE TO 
The earth, rock, or fand, for it was not eafy to diftinguifh 
of which its furface is compofed, exhibited various colours, 
and a conftderable part we conje£tured to be fulphur, both 
from its appearance to the eye, and the ftrong fulphureous 
fmell which we perceived, as we approached the point. 
Some of the officers on board the Refolution, which palled 
nearer the land, thought they faw Reams riling from the 
top of the hill. From thefe circumftances, Captain Gore 
gave it the name of Sulphur Ifland. A low, narrow, neck of 
land connects this hill with the South end of the ifland, 
which fpreads out into a circumference of three or four 
leagues, and is of a moderate height. The part near the 
ifthmus has fome bullies on it, and has a green appear¬ 
ance, but thofe to the North Eaft are very barren, and full 
of large detached rocks, many of which were exceedingly 
white. Very dangerous breakers extend two miles and a 
half to the Eaft, and two miles to the Weft, off the middle 
part of the ifland, on which the fea broke with great 
violence. 
The North and South Iflands appeared to us as Angle 
mountains of a conflderable height; the former peaked, 
and of a conical fliape; the latter more fquare and flat at 
the top. Sulphur Ifland we place in latitude 24 0 48", lon¬ 
gitude 141 0 12', The North ifland in latitude 25 0 14', lon¬ 
gitude 141 0 1 oh The South Ifland in latitude 24 0 22', 
and longitude 141 0 2oh The variation obferved was 3 0 30' 
Eaft. 
Captain Gore now directed his courfe to the Weft South 
Weft, for the Bafhee Iflands, hoping to procure, at them, 
fuch a fupply of refrefhments as would help to fliorten his 
ftay in Macao. Thefe iflands were viflted by Dampier, 
who 
