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we were scarcely got out of the Port before it began to blow very hard, and the weather became so thick that we could not see the rocky islands. I now most heartily wished myself again at anchor in the harbour we had quitted; but in a short time we had the satisfaction to see the weather become clear, though it continued to blow very hard the whole day. At nine the entrance of Port Egmont harbour bore E.S.E. distant two leagues; the two low islands to the northward E. by N. distant between three and four miles; and the Rocky island W. ½ N. distant four leagues. At ten the two low islands bore S.S.E. distant four or five miles; and we then steered along the shore east by the compass, and after having run about five leagues, we saw a remarkable headland, with a rock at a little distance from it, bearing E.S.E. ½ E. distant three leagues. This head-land I called CAPE TAMAR. Having continued the same course five leagues farther, we saw a rock about five miles from the main bearing N.E. at the distance of four or five leagues: this rock I called the EDISTONE, and then steered between it and a remarkable head-land which I called CAPE DOLPHIN, in the direction of E.N.E. five leagues farther. From Cape Tamar to Cape Dolphin, a distance of about eight leagues, the land forms, what I thought, a deep sound, and called CARLISLE SOUND, but what has since appeared to be the northern entrance of the Streight between the two principal islands. In the part that I supposed to be the bottom of the sound, we saw an opening, which had the appearance of a harbour. From Cape Dolphin we steered along the shore E. ½ N. sixteen leagues, to a low flat cape or head-land, and then brought to. In this day’s run the land, for the most part, resembled the east side of the coast of Patagonia, not having so much as a single tree, or even a bush, being all downs, with here and there a few of the high tufts of grass that we had seen
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© Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, page 55, 2004
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