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220 have we seen any since we made this land, except the fire on the 4th.

18th. Immense quantities of snow newly fallen on the hills were by noon plainly seen to begin to melt.

21st. At night saw a phenomenon which I have but seldom seen; at sunset the flying clouds were of almost all colours, among which green was very conspicuous, though rather faint.

24th. Just turned the most westerly point, and stood into the mouth of the straits.

26th. At night came to an anchor in a bay, in some part of which it is probable that Tasman anchored.

30th. I examined the stones which lay on the beach: they showed evident signs of mineral tendency, being full of veins, but I had not the fortune to discover any ore of metal (at least that I know to be so) in them. As the place we lay in had no bare rocks in its neighbourhood, this was the only method I had of even conjecturing.