To the southermost of the two, which when we first discovered land were right ahead, I gave the name of LORD HOW's ISLAND, and the other was Egmont Island, of which some account has already been given. The latitude of Lord How' S Island is 11° 1° S., longitude 164° 4° E.: the latitude of Cape Byron, the north east point of Egmont island, is 10° 4° S., longitude 164° 4° E. The east sides of these two islands, which lie exactly in a line with each other, about N. by W. and S. by E. including the passage between them, extend about eleven leagues, and the passage is about four miles broad; both of them appear to be fertile, and have a pleasant appearance, being covered with tall trees, of a beautiful verdure. Lord How' s Island, though more flat and even than the other, is notwithstanding high land. About thirteen leagues W.N.W. ½ N. by compass, from Cape Byron, there is an island of a stupendous height, and a conical figure. The top of it is shaped like a funnel, from which we saw smoke issue, though no flame; it is, however, certainly a volcano, and therefore I called it VOLCANO ISLAND. To a long flat island that, when How' s and Egmont's Islands were right ahead, bore N.W. I gave the name of KEPPEL's ISLAND. It lies in latitude 10° 1° S., longitude, by account, 165° ° E. The largest of two others to the S.E. I called LORD EDGCOMB's ISLAND, the small one I called OURRy's ISLAND. Edgcomb's Island has a fine pleasant appearance, and lies in latitude 11° 1° S., longitude 165° 1° E. The latitude of Ourry's Island is 11° 1° S., longitude 165° 1° E. The other islands, of which there were several, I did not particularly name.

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