THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
lying in and without the entrance, for which the annexed 
Chart of the coaft, and Iketch of the harbour, may be con- 
fulted. We went in and out between them and the North 
head; but I have no doubt that there are other channels. 
As we were Handing out of Port Pallifer, we difcovered a 
round hill, like a fugar-loaf, in the direction of South 72° 
Eaft, about nine leagues diftant. It had the appearance of 
an illand lying at fome diftance from the coaft; but we af¬ 
terward found it was upon the main land. In getting out 
to fea, we had to fteer through the winding channels 
amongft the fhoals. However, we ventured to run over 
fome of them, on which we never found lefs than eighteen 
fathoms, and often did not ftrike ground with twenty-four; 
fo that, had it not been for the fea-weed growing upon all 
of them, they would not have been difcovered. 
After we had got about three or four leagues from the 
coaft, we found a clear fea, and then fleered Eaft till nine 
o’clock, when the Sugar Loaf hill, above mentioned, which 
I named Mount Campbell , bore South Eaft, and a final! 
ifland that lies to the Northward of it, South South Eaft, 
diftant four leagues. I now fleered more Southerly, in or¬ 
der to get in with the land. At noon, the latitude by double 
altitudes was 49° 8 7 South; and we had made eighty miles 
of Eaft longitude from Cape St. Louis *. Mount Campbell 
bore South 47 0 Weft, diftant about four leagues; a low 
point, beyond which no land was to be feen, bore South 
South Eaft, at the diftance of about twenty miles ; and we 
were about two leagues from the fhore. 
The land here is low and level t. The mountains ending; 
about 
* Cape Francois. 
t This part of the coaft feems to be what the French faw on the 5th of January 1774. 
Monfieur de Pages fpeaks of it thus: “ Nous reconnumes une nouvelle cote etendue de 
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1776. 
December. 
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