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*77<5. Southern Hemifphere, Cape St. Louis terminated in a 
1 perpendicular rock of a confiderable height; and the right 
one (near which is a detached rock) in a high indented 
point t. From this point the coaft feemed to turn fhort 
round to the Southward; for we could fee no land to the 
Weft ward of the direction in which it now bore to us, but 
the illands we had obferved in the morning; the moil 
Southerly % of them lying nearly Weft from the point, 
about two or three leagues diftant. 
About the middle of the land there appeared to be an 
inlet, for which we fteered; but, on approaching, found it 
was only a bending in the coaft, and therefore bore up, to 
go round Gape St. Louis §. Soon after, land opened off the 
* Hitherto, we have only had occafion to fupply defeats, owing to Captain Cook’s 
entire ignorance of Kerguelen’s fecond voyage in 1773; we muft now corredt errors, 
owing to his very limited knowledge of the operations of the firft voyage in 1772. The 
Chart of the Southern Hemifphere, his only guide, having given him, as he tells us, the 
name of Cape St. Louis (or Cape Louis) as the moft Northerly promontory then feen 
by the French; and his own obfervations now fatisfying him that no part of the main 
land ftretched farther North than the left extreme now before him; from this fuppofed 
fimilarity of fituation, he judged that his own perpendicular rock muft be the Cape Louis 
of the firft difcoverers. By looking upon our Chart, we fhall find Cape Louis lying 
upon a very different part of the coaft; and by comparing this Chart with that lately 
pub!idled by Kerguelen, it will appear, in the cleared: manner, that the Northern point 
now defcribed by Captain Cook, is the very fame to which the French have given the 
name of Cape Francois. 
f This right extreme of the coaft, as it now flhewed itfelf to Captain Cook, feems to 
be what is reprefented on Kerguelen’s Chart under the name of Cape Aubert. It may 
be proper to obferye here, that all that extent of coaft lying between Cape Louis and 
Cape Francois, of which the French faw very little during their firft vifit in I 77 2 > an ^ 
may be called the North Weft fide of this land, they had it in their power to trace the 
pofition of in 1773, and have affigned names to fome of its bays, rivers, and promon¬ 
tories, upon their Chart. 
J Kerguelen’s Me de Clugny. 
§ Cape Francois, as already obferved. 
Cape, 
