THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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harbour has another diftinguilhing mark within, from a 1776. 
fingle ftone or rock, of a vail fize, which lies on the top of ^cember. 
a hill on the South fide, near its bottom; and oppolite this, 
on the North lide, there is another hill, much like it, but 
fmaller. There is a fmall beach at its bottom, where we 
commonly landed; and, behind it, fome gently riling 
ground ; on the top of which is a large pool of frelh water. 
The land on both lides of the inlet is high, and it runs in 
Weft, and Weft North Weft, about two miles. Its breadth 
is one mile and a quarter, for more than half its length; 
above which it is only half a mile. The depth of water, 
w'hich is forty-five fathoms at the entrance, varies, as we 
proceed farther in, from thirty, to five and four fathoms, 
as marked upon the Plan. The fhores are fteep ; and the 
bottom is every where a fine dark fand, except in fome 
places clofe to the Ihore, where there are beds of fea-weed, 
which always grows on rocky ground. The head of the 
harbour lies open only to two points of the compafs; and 
even thefe are covered by illands in the offing, fo that no 
fea can fall in to hurt a fhip. The appearances on Ihore 
confirmed this ; for we found grafs growing clofe to high- 
water mark, which is a fure fign of a pacific harbour *. 
It 
“ elies etoient feparees par une pointe tres reconnoiflable par fa forme, qu'i reprefentoit une 
“ porte cochere , au trovers de laquclle Von voyoit le jour.” Voyages du M. de Pages, Vol. ii. 
p. 67 . Every one knows how exactly the form of a porte cochere , or arched gateway, 
correfponds with that of the arch of a bridge. It is very fatisfaclory to find the two navi¬ 
gators, neither of whom knew any tiling of the other’s defcription, adopting the fame 
idea ; which both proves that they had the fame uncommon object before their eyes, and 
that they made an accurate report. 
* In the laft Note, we faw how remarkably Monfieur de Pages and Captain Cook 
agree about the appearance of the South Point of the harbour; I (hall here fubjoin ano¬ 
ther quotation from the former, containing his account of the harbour itfelf, in which die 
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