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 The land forms a kind of bay, the extremes of which bore, from South 43° Wet, a high bluff; to Eat 34° North, a low point; there is a ditant high rock, off the South Wet point. Wet 33° South, which lays off the Eat part of a deep commodious bay. South by Eat of us, was a mall bay, formed by two rocky points; in the Eat part of which, was one of thoe mall creeks, already mentioned. I ounded round the hip with two boats, as well as between us, and the hore: here we found a good bottom, the oundings increaing or decreaing as we ditanced or neared the land.

Two boats now landed abreat of the hip, and the crews dividing, took the eparate coures of Eat and Wet, in earch of water and vegetables: a third boat I ent off to the large bay, which is ditinguihed by the high rock, on a imilar puruit, but they all returned in the evening, without having attained the objects of their earch. The boat from the Wet, had found an uncommon kind of and; we uppoed it, from its weight, to contain ome kind of ore, and which we afterwards found, to be mall topazes.

This ile is of a moderate height, the highet parts being to the Wetward. All the North ide decends gradually to the ea, forming low points. Many parts are well wooded, but as it was winter, there was no appearance of verdure,