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[missing]                     out from between the heads, with
[missing]                 breeze at west-south-west, and set the sail
[missing]           two points off the line of the coast, expecting
[missing]       breeze to set in in the morning. The wind almost died
away at day break, and the high heads abreast, which we took
for those midway between Port Jackson and Botany Bay, seemed
to denote that we had made but little progreƒs. At ten, it became
calm with very sultry weather, and the water we had in the
boat, having been by mistake put into a wine barica, was
exceedingly bad: fortunately we had five water melons in the
boat.
        We continued rowing to the southward in expectation of the
sea breeze, till one o'clock; and then steered in for the shore with
a light air at south-south-east, with which we steered west south west
two-and-half or three knots per hour, for a sloping point of
land like Cape Banks. An eminence on the high land a-
-breast, which presented itself under the semblance of Hat
Hill, soon excited our attention; but as Hat Hill was at least
fifteen leagues to the southward of Port Jackson, the almost
impoƒsibility of our having run that distance, made us dis-
-trust the appearance till a nearer approach to the shore con-
-firmed it, by bringing likewise to our recollection the land which
was immediately to the northward of it, and had been seen
in the ship on her return from Norfolk Island.
We had altered our course more in for the land on first dis-
-covering the hill, and when certified of its identity, hauled up