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 COASTS Ot AUSTS.LL. 199 our voyage, and steered for Cape Sandwich, after passing inside the Palm Island Group. We were now appr.hing Point Hillock, which is a point of land projecting for two miles into the sea, with a small hillock at its extremity; from which Captain Cook :named it; the land rises precipitously behind it to the height of about two thousand feet, and forms a mass of bare rocky hills ofa singulaxly grand and imposing appearance. It rises nearly perpendicularly from the lower wooded hills at its base, and is as abrupt on its land side as on that which faces the sea. The summit extends from north to south for seven miles and forms a narrow craggy ridge, on which are several remarkable peaks. It was called Mount Hinchinbrook, and is visible from the deck for eighteen leagues, An opening was observed to trend round the rear of the Mount, and probably separates it from the main land. We passed half a mile outside the low rock off Cape Sandwich, within a group of low rocky isles (Brooke's Islands), and then steered towards a Peaked hill, which was soon alterwards found to be on the island laid down by Captain Cook in Rockingham Bay, it now received the name of Goold Island. We then entered Rockingham Bay. and anchored at two miles off Goold Island. On passing Cape Sandwich in the afternoon

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