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 and Eat end of Albemarle Ile, when we tried for ounding with one hundred fathom of line but found no bottom. The following day, as oon as it was light, we bore up to round the South and Wet end of Albemarle Ile, called, by the Buccaneers, Chritopher's Point. Within a few miles of it, the Latitude was, by obervation, 0° 55′ 14″ South. The extremities of Albemarle Ile, bearing from Eat 22° South, to North 10° Eat; and of Narborough Ile from North, to North 20° Wet.

A large bay opened to our view, which was formed by the South and Wet points of Albemarle Ile, and the Eat part of Narborough Ile, having received originally from the Buccaneers the name of Elizabeth Bay. As it is very capacious, we conjectured that we hould find good anchorage; I therefore accompanied the chief mate to examine it, but we could find no bottom for two leagues at the ditance of a mile or a mile and a half from the hore, with one hundred and fifty fathom of line. The inhopitable appearance of this place was uch as I had never before een, nor had I ever beheld uch wild cluters of hillocks, in uch trange irregular hapes and forms, as the hore preented, except on the fields of ice near the South Pole. The bae appeared to be one entire clinker to a coniderable ditance