A VOYAGE TO 
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1778. a low point facing Trinity Ifland, and which we called Cape 
v Trinity , now bore Weft North Weft. In this fttuation, 
having tacked in fifty-four fathoms water, over a bottom of 
black fand, we flood over for the ifland, intending to work 
up between it and the main. The land to the Weft ward of 
Two-headed Point, is not fo mountainous as it is to the 
North Eaft of it, nor does fo much fnow lie upon it. There 
are, however, a good many hills confiderably elevated; but 
they are disjoined by large tradls of flat land that appeared 
to be perfectly deftitute of wood, and very barren. 
As we were Handing over toward the ifland, we met two 
men in a fmall canoe, paddling from it to the main. Far 
from approaching us, they feemed rather to avoid it. The 
wind now began to incline to the South; and we had reafon 
to expedl, that it would foon be at South Eaft. Experi¬ 
ence having taught us, that a South Eafterly wind was here 
generally, if not always, accompanied by a thick fog, I. 
was afraid to venture through between the ifland and the 
continent, left the paflage fhould not be accomplifhed be¬ 
fore night, or before the thick weather came on; when 
we fhould be obliged to anchor, and, by that means, lofe 
the advantage of a fair wind. Thefe reafons induced me 
to ftretch out to fea; and we pafled two or three rocky 
iflots that lie near the Eaft end of Trinity Ifland. At four 
in the afternoon, having weathered the ifland, we tacked, 
and fleered Weft, Southerly, with a frefh gale at South 
South Eaft; which, before midnight, veered to the South 
Eaft; and was, as ufual, attended with mifty, drizzling, 
rainy weather. 
By the courfe we fleered all night, I was in hopes of fall- 
Monday 15. ing in wdt.h the continent in the morning. And, doubtlefs, 
we fhould have feen it, had the weather been, in the leaft, 
clear; 
