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Towards Hervey's Bay.]

from the low land, and in coming along the coast makes like an island; its latitude is 28° 38′, and longitude 153° 37′, or 7′ east of the situation assigned to it by captain Cook. There are three rocks on its north side; and in the direction of N. 57° W., eight or nine leagues from it, is the peaked top of a mass of mountains, named by its discoverer Mount Warning; whose elevation is about 3300 feet, and exceeds that of Mount Dromedary, or any other land I have seen upon this East Coast. To Mr. Westall's sketch of this remarkable peak it may be added, that the surrounding hills were well covered with wood, whose foliage announced a soil more fertile than usual so near the sea side.

The sun was near setting at the time Cape Byron bore west, three or four miles; and the coast from thence to Point Look-out having been seen by captain Cook, we steered off in order to avoid falling in with the reefs of Point Danger in the night. At eleven, hauled more in for the land; and at eight next day, Mount Warning was set at S. 25° W., twenty leagues. On coming in with Point Lookout, I took observations for the latitude and longitude, which fixed it in 27° 27′ south, and 153° 31′ east. The latitude is the same as it had been made in the Norfolk, (Introd. p. cxcv), but is 19′ south, and 3′ west of the situation given in captain Cook's chart. The bearings of the land at noon were, A strange vessel seen to the southward, had induced me to carry little sail all the morning; it was now perceived not to be the Lady Nelson, but probably one of the two whalers known to be fishing off the coast; we therefore made sail for Cape Moreton, and came up with it at four o'clock. I was much surprised to see a small, but dangerous reef lying between four and five miles off this cape to the north-east, which had not been noticed in the Norfolk; in