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from s. 40 v., diftant four miles, to s. 23 w. ; cape Decifion s, 87 m',, nearly two leagues; mount Calder n. 13 k ; a confpicuous point on the eallern (liore, forming the Ibuth-eaft point of entrance into this Ibair. N. 76 E., diftant two leagues; to which, after Captain Pole of the navy, I gave the name of Cape Pole ; the eafl point of Warren's ifland s. 87 r., about two leagues diftant; its north-well point, named by me PoiM r BoRi.ASE, s. 63 E., diftant one league ; audits fouth-weft point S.51 E., five miles diftant. In this fituation our obferved latitude was c^6°, longitude 226" 17'.

Soon after mid-day our favorable breeze gradually decreafed, fo that it was pail fun-fet before we reached the ocean.

We had now become pretty well acquainted with this entrance into the ftrait, formed on the well: by cape Decifion, and on the eaft fide bv cape Pole; thefc lie from each other s. 72 e., and n. 72 vv., 11 miles afunder; having to the fouthward of this line the iftands above men- tioned, by which are formed three palfages into the ftrait. That be- tween cape Decifion and the iftands to the fouth of it, has been already <lefcribed; that which we purfued between Coronation and Warren's iilands is by far the moll fpacious and fair to navigate, for in that be- tween cape Pole and Warren's illand fome lurking rocks were obferved.

To the fouthward of this illand are three cluftcrs of very dangerous rocks, the firft lying from its north-weft point s. 15 k,, at the diftance of three miles and a half; the fecond fouth, diftant fix miles; andafmall iftet lying from them fouth-eaft, at the diftance of about half a league. The third duller lies oft' the fouth-eaft point of the ifland, which, from its north-weft point, lies s. 5- k., four miles, from whence thofe rocks lie in a direction s, 30 e., about four miles diftant. Nearly in mid-channel between the iftands, bottom could not be gained with 120 fathoms of line. We faw notiiing of the land to the north-weft of cape Decifion, but that to the Ibuth-eaft and fouth of cape Pole fcemed to be much divided by water.

Having once more the fatisfaftion of being in an open fca, our courfe was directed to the fouth-eaft, but our fails were fcarcely trfmmed to the favorable breeze that prevailed, when it fuddenly fliiftetl to the s.k., 1 and