An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq.; . e before noon we an-chored in fifteen fathom water, with a fandy bottom; for Idid not think it fafe to run in among the fhoals, till I hadwell viewed them, at low-water, from the mafl-head, whichmight determine me
An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq.; . e before noon we an-chored in fifteen fathom water, with a fandy bottom; for Idid not think it fafe to run in among the fhoals, till I hadwell viewed them, at low-water, from the mafl-head, whichmight determine me which way to fleer: for as yet I wasin doubt whether I fhould beat back to the fouthward, roundall the fhoals, or feek a paffage to the eaflward or the north-ward, all which at prefent appeared to be equally difficultand dangerous. When we were at anchor the harbour fromwhich we failed bore S. 70 W. diflant about five leagues; thenorthermofl point of the main in fight, which I named CapeBedford, and which lies in latitude 150 16S., longitude2140 45 \V. bore N. ao W. diflant three leagues and a half;but to the N. E. of this Cape we could fee land which hadthe appearance of two high iflands: the turtle banks boreeafl, diflant one mile: our latitude by obfervation was150 32S. and our depth of water in flanding off from theland was from three and an half to fifteen faihom. CHAP,. ;. *, * * ..;i- -. On thu Lctldv^t/u-yht[> ** ?•.*?• laid x3Hours. and, n- * * * ? *cdvednuick Jama,),-. Ji — «w ?? ^ ^i »« r .jo I., 1, io 1^*—«** ROUND THE WORLD. 589 CHAP. VII. Departure from Endeavour River; a particular Defcrip-tion of the Harbour there, in which the Ship was refitted,the adjacent Country, and fever al Ifla?ids near the Coafii .•the Ran<re from Endeavour River to the Northern Ex-tremity of the Country, and the Dangers of that Navi-gation. TO the harbour which we had now left, I gave the name 1770;of Endeavour River. It is only a fmall bar harbour, L_ _^— *o
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