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AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE round the WORLD.
BOOK II.
CHAPTER VII.
AT four o'clock in the afternoon, of Friday the 9th of February, having tacked, we stood S. W. and con|tinued to make sail to the southward till sunset on the 11th, when a fresh breeze at N. E. had carried us back again the length of Cape Palliser, of which, as the weather was clear, we had a good view. Between the foot of the high land and the sea there is a low flat border, off which there are some rocks that appear above water. Between this Cape and Cape Turnagain, the land near the shore is, in many places, low and flat, and has a green and pleasant appearance; but farther from the sea it rises into hills. The land between Cape Palliser and Cape Tierawitte is high, and makes in table-points; it also seemed to us to form two bays, but we were at too great a distance from this part of the coast, to judge ac|curately from appearances. The wind having been variable with calms, we had advanced no farther by the 12th at noon than latitude 41:52, Cape Palliser then bearing north, distant about five leagues; and the snowy mountain S. 83 W.
At noon on the 13th, we found ourselves in the latitude of 42:2 S.; Cape Palliser bearing N. 20 E. distant eight leagues. In the afternoon a fresh gale sprung up at N. E. and we steered S. W. by W. for the southermost land in sight, which at sunset bore from us S. 74 W. At this time the va|riation was 15:4 E.
At eight o'clock in the morning of the 14th, having run one and twenty leagues S. 58 W. since the preceeding noon, it fell calm. We were then abreast of the snowy mountain, which bore from us N. W. and in this direction lay behind a mountainous ridge of nearly the same height, which rises di|rectly from the sea, and runs parallel with the shore, which lies N. E. ½ N. and S. W. ½ S. The north west end of the ridge rises inland, not far from Cape Campbell; and both the mountain and the ridge are distinctly seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Palliser: from Koamaroo they are