hick clouds were
gathering in the south and west, and strong gusts with heavy rain
presently succeeded. Fortunately, the squalls came from the westward, so
that we were enabled to get further from those stupendous cliffs; had
they come from the south, the consequences might have been fatal to the
Norfolk.

The first steep head, to the eastward of the South Cape, opened round it
at E. 7 deg. N., (allowing 4 deg. east variation,) and a second from the first,
at E. 16 deg. N., their distances asunder being each about five miles. It is
the middlemost of these three heads which is called South Cape by captain
Cook, as appears from the relative situations of his Peaked Hill and of
Swilly rock; but he had not the opportunity of seeing the heads opening
one from the other, as we had in the Norfolk. I make the latitude of the
Cape (adding the 2' 40") to be 43 deg. 37', nearly as captain Furneaux did;
and as captain Cook would have done, had his latitude at noon been taken
43 deg. 421/2', according to the _Astronomical Observations_, instead Of 42 deg.
47', as in the voyage.

Pedro Blame, or Swilly rock, became visible at half past seven, when the
squalls had mostly blown over; and the following bearings where then
taken:

South Cape, distant five miles, W. by N.
East extreme of the next steep head, dist. 21/2 miles, N. 14 deg. E.
Pedro Blanca, S. 33 E.
Distant land through the haze, N. 60 E.

At nine o'clock we hauled up for D'Entrecasteauxs Channel, of which I had
the sketch of Mr. Hayes, and stood off and on, in the entrance, during
the night; the wind blowing hard at west, with dark rainy weather.

Dec. 14, at four in the morning, our situation was far to leeward; and
having no prospect of fetching into the channel, we bore away for
Boreel's Isles, which were seen bearing N. 65 deg. E. two leagues. Three of
these produce some vegetation, and that of the largest had been partially
burnt not long before. The two easternmost, called the Friars by captain
Furneaux, are bare pyramidal rocks, and, except where they had been made
white by the gannets, are of a black, weather-beaten colour: a patch of
breakers lies one mile to the north-east from them.

Fluted Cape opened round Tasman's Head at N. 18 deg. E. We passed these steep
projections at a mile distance; and not being able to fetch into
Adventure Bay, did the same by Cape Frederick H