tranquillity. The fea lions poffefs moft of the coaft; the bears take up their quarters within the ifle; the hags lodge in the higheft cliffs; the penguins have their feparate abode, where there is the most easy communication to and from the fea; and the other birds have their places of retirement: yet we have obferved them all, with mutual reconcilement, mix together, like domeftic cattle and poultry in a farm yard: nay, we have feen the eagles and vultures fitting together among the fhags, on their hillocks, without the latter, either young or old, being difturbed at their prefence.

We left Staten Island on the 3d, and this day being the 4th, we saw the land again; and at fix o'clock in the afternoon, a heavy fquall came fo fuddenly upon us, that it carried away a top-gallant maft, a ftudding-fail boom, and a fore ftudding-fail. This ended in a heavy fhower of rain; and now steered S. W. in order to difcover the gulph of Sebastian, if fuch a coaft exifted, in which that gulph has been represented, for of this we entertained a doubt; however, this appeared to be the best course to clear it up, and to explore the fouthern part of this

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On the 6th, we were in lat. 58 deg. 9 min. S. and 53 deg. 14 min. W. the fituation nearly affigned for the S. W. point of the gulph of St. Sebaftian; but feeing no figns of land, were ftill doubtful of its exiftence; and being alfo fearful, that by keeping to the S. might mifs the land, faid to be discovered by La Roche in 1675, and by the fhip Lion, in 1756; for these reasons we hauled to the N. in order to get in to the parallel laid down by Dalrymple as foon as poffible. On the 7th, we were near midnight in the lat. of 56 deg. 4. min. S. long. 53 deg. 36 min. W. O o

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On the 13th, we ftood to the S. till noon, when finding ourselves in lat. 55 deg. 7 min. we ftretched, to the N. We saw feveral penguins, and a fnow peterel, which we judged to denote the vicinity of ice. We found also the air much colder than we had felt it fince we left New Zealand. On the 14th, we difcovered land, in a manner wholly covered with fnow. We founded in 175 fathoms, muddy bottom. On the 15th the wind blew in fqualls, attended with fnow and fleet, and we had a great fea to encounter. At four we ftood to the S. W. under two courfes; but at midnight the ftorm abated, fo that we could carry our top-fails double reefed.

On the 16th, at four o'clock A. M. we ftood to the E. with a moderate breeze, and at eight saw the land extending from E. by N. to N. E. by N. It proved to be an ifland, and we called it Wallis's ifland, from the name of the perfon who first dif covered it from the maft-head. We bore to it with a view of exploring the nothern coaft; and as we advanced, perceived another ifle to the north, between that and the main. Obferving a clear paffage between both, we fteered for the fame, and in the midway found it to be two miles broad. Willis's Ifle is in the lat. of 54 deg. S. and in 38 deg. 23 min. W. long.

On the 17th, having got through the paffage, we obferved the north coaft trended E. by N. for about three leagues. We ranged the coaft till near night, at one league diftance, when, on founding, we found fifty fathoms, and a muddy bottom. On the 17th, we made for the land. We now fteered along fhore till feven, when feeing the appearance of an inlet, we hauled in for it. The captain, accompanied by Mr. Forfter and others, went off in a boat, to reconnoitre the bay before we ventured in with the thip.

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They landed in three different places, difplayed our colours, and took poffeffion of the country in his Majesty's name. The head of the bay was terminated by ice-cliffs, of confiderable height; pieces of which were continually breaking off, and made a noife like a cannon. Nor were the interior parts of the country lefs horrible. The favage rocks raised their lofty fummits till loft in the clouds, and vallies were covered with feemingly perpetual fnow. Not a tree, nor a fhrub of any fize were to be feen. The only signs of vegetations were a strong bladed grass, growing in tufts, wild burnet, and a plant like moss seen on the rocks. Sea bears, or feals, were numerous; the fhores fwarmed with young cubs. Here were alfo the largest penguins we had yet feen. Some we brought aboard weighed thirty pounds.

When the party returned aboard, they brought with them a quantity of feals and penguins; not that we wanted provifions, but any kind of fresh meat was acceptable to the crew; and even Capt. Cook acknowledged, that he was now, for the first time, heartily tired of falt diet of every kind; and that, though the flesh of penguins could fcarcely be compared to bullocks liver, yet its being fresh was fufficient to make it palatable. The captain named the bay he furveyed, Poffeffion Bay; though, according to his account of it, we think it to be no appendage to his Majefty's new poffeffions.

On the 18th, we made fail to the eaft, along the coaft; the direction of which from Cape Buller, is 73 deg. 30 min. E. for the space of twelve leagues, to a projecting point, which was named Cape Saunders. Beyond this is a pretty large bay, which obtained the name of Cumberland Bay. At the bottom of this, as alfo in fome fmaller ones, were vaft tracts of frozen ice or fnow, not yet broken lose. But

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But now juft paft Cumberland Bay, we hauled off the coaft, from whence we were diftant four miles.

On the 20th, we made fail to the S. W. round Cooper's ifland, which is one rock confiderably high, about five miles in circuit, and one diftant from the main. Here the main coaft takes a S. W. direction for five leagues, to a point which we called Cape Disappointment, off which are three fmall ifles. The most fouthern one is a league from the Cape, green, low, and flat. We now quitted this coaft, and directed our courfe to the S. S. E. for the land we had feen the preceeding day. Aftrong gale overtook us, and we thought ourselves very fortunate in having got clear of the land before this came on.

On the 21ft, the ftorm was fucceeded by a thick fog, attended with rain; but having got a foutherly breeze, we ftood to the eaft till three in the afternoon; and then fteered north in fearch of the land. On the 22d, we had thick foggy weather: but in the evening it was fo clear that we could fee two leagues round us, and thinking we might be to the east of the land, we fteered weft.

On the 23d, a thick fog at fix o'clock, once more compelled us to haul the wind to the fouth; but at eleven, we were favoured with a view of three or four rocky iflots, extending from S. E. to E. N. E. about one league diftant; and this, being the extent of our horizon, might be the reafon we did not fee the Sugar-loaf. We were well affured, this was the land we had feen before, and which we had now circumnavigated; confifting of only a few detached rocks, the receptacles for birds. They are fituated in lat. 55 deg. S. This interval of clear weather was fucceeded by as thick a fog as ever, on which we flood to the N. Thus we were continually involved in thick mifts, and the fhags, with frequent

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foundings, were our beft pilots; but on the 24th, we ftood a few miles to the north, when we got clear of the rocks, out of foundings, and faw not any fhags.

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The Refolution continues her courfe Saunders ifles difcovered Conjectures, and fome reafons that there may be land about the fouth pole➖➖ The Refolution alters her courfe to the caf---Proceedings till her arrival at the Cape of Good Hope-----Sails for the ile of Fayal, and returns to England----Capt. Furneaux's narrative, from the time the Adventure was feparated from the Refolution, to her arrival in England, including the report of Lieut. Burney, concerning the untimely death of the boat's crew, who were. murdered by fome of the natives of Queen Charlotte's

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N the 25th, we fteered E. S. E. We had a fresh gale at N. N. E. but the weather fill continued foggy, till towards the evening, at which time it cleared up. On the 26th, we held on our course with a fine gale from the N. N. W. but at day-light, feeing no land to the east, and being in latitude 56 deg. 33 min. S. and in 31. deg. 10 min. W. longitude, we fteered to the fouth.

On the 27th, we had fo thick a fog, that we could not fee a fhip's length. We expected foon to fall in with the ice, and on this account, it being no longer fafe to fail before the wind, we hauled to the east with a gentle gale. When the fog cleared away, we refumed our courfe to the fouth; but it returned again, which obliged us to haul upon a wind; and

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