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tance of the vessel that it represented. It was so 
extremely well defined, that when examined with 
a telescope by Dollond, I could distinguish every 
sail, the general “ rig of the ship,” and its particu¬ 
lar character; insomuch that I confidently pro¬ 
nounced it to he my Father’s ship, the Fame, which 
it afterwards proved to be;—though, on comparing 
notes with my Father, I found that our relative 
position at the time gave our distance from one 
another very nearly thirty miles, being about se¬ 
venteen miles beyond the horizon, and some leagues 
beyond the limit of direct vision. (Plate V. 
fig. 2.) I was so struck by the peculiarity of the 
circumstance, that I mentioned it to the officer 
of the watch, stating my full conviction that the 
Fame was then cruizing in the neighbouring inlet. 
July 2 5th .—In the course of the night, ha¬ 
ving occasionally a light breeze of wind, we stood 
to the westward, into the entrance of the spa¬ 
cious inlet that was first seen on the 23d. At 
six in the morning, we were almost in the middle 
of the entrance, in which situation we had a 
clear view of the interior of the inlet. Towards 
the west (true) no land was in sight. From Cape 
Swainson, the northern coast trends WSW. 
(true), to another low point about six miles dis¬ 
tant, that was named Cape Tobin, in compli¬ 
ment to Sir John Tobin of Liverpool. This is 
