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A VOYAGE TO 
1776. 
December. 
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about five leagues from the low point, a great extent of low 
land is left, on which Mount Campbell is fituated, about 
four miles from the foot of the mountains, and one from 
the fea coaft. Thefe mountains have a confiderable eleva¬ 
tion, as alfo moft of the inland ones. They feemed to be 
compofed of naked rocks, whofe fummits were capt with 
lnow. Nor did the valleys appear to greater advantage. 
To whatever quarter we directed our glaffes, nothing but 
fterility was to be feen. 
We had fcarcely finifhed taking the bearings at noon, 
before we obferved low land opening off the low point juft 
mentioned, in the direction of South South Eaft, and eight 
miles beyond it. This new point proved to be the very 
Eaftern extremity of this land, and it was named Cape Dig - 
by. It is fituated in the latitude of 49 0 23" South, and in the 
longitude of 70° 34' Eaft. 
Between Howe’s Foreland and Cape Digby, the fliore 
forms (befides the feveral leffer bays and harbours) one 
great bay that extends feveral leagues to the South Weft, 
where it feemed to lofe itfelf in various arms running hi 
between the mountains. A prodigious quantity of fea- 
weed grows all over it, which feemed to be the fame fort of 
weed that Mr. Banks diftinguifhed by the name of fucus 
giganteus *. Some of this weed is of a moft enormous length, 
though the ftem is not much thicker than a man’s thumb. 
I have mentioned, that on fome of the fhoals upon which it 
grows, we did not ftrike ground with a line of twenty-four 
fathoms. The depth of water, therefore, muft have been 
“ toute veu dans PEft, & dans le Oueft. Les terres de cette cote etoient moins elevees 
u que celles que nous avions veues jufques ici; elles etoient aufii d’un afpeCt moins rude.” 
De Pages, Tom. ii. p. 68. 
* See Hawkefworth’s Collection of Voyages, Vol. ii. p. 42. 
greater. 
