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A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP. V. 
Departure from Chrijimas Harbour.—Range along the Coajl, 
to difcover its Pojltion and Extent.—Several Promontories 
and Bays , and a Peninfula , deferibed and named.—Danger 
from Shoals.—Another Harbour and a Sound. — Mr. An- 
derforts Obfervations on the natural Productions, Animals, 
Soil, &c. of Kerguelerts Land. 
17761 A $ f° on as t * ie fhip s were out of Chriftmas Harbour, we 
.December fleered South Eaft k South, along the coafl, with a 
Sunday 29. fine breeze at North North Weft, and clear weather. This 
we thought the more fortunate, as, for fome time paft, fogs 
had prevailed, more or lefs, every day; and the continu¬ 
ance of them would have defeated our plan of extending 
Kerguelen’s difeovery. We kept the lead conftantly go¬ 
ing ; but feldom ftruck ground with a line of fifty or fixty 
fathoms. 
About feven or eight o’clock, we were off a promontory, 
which I called Cape Cumberland. It lies a league and a 
half from the South point of Chriftmas Harbour, in the 
direction of South Eaft f South. Between them is a bay 
with two arms, both of which feemed to afford good fhelter 
for fhipping. Off Cape Cumberland is a fmall but pretty 
high ifland, on the fummit of which is a rock like a fen- 
try-box, which occalioned our giving that name to the 
illand. Two miles farther to the Eaftward, lies a group of 
3 fmall 
