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1798                 island by a strait seemingly of three or four miles wide; and that
February           the sloping island was situated in nearly the middle of it; but there
Saturday 10         appeared to be a sufficient passage through.
    At half past four, the island we had passed bore north-west-half-north, the pyramid seeming to be distinct from the rest of the land; and the two pyramids of the large island now appeared to be three distinct ones, and not unlike each other in form, the middle one being rather the smallest. As we judged them sufficiently old to deserve the title, I called them the Patriarchs.
    Some distant land appeared through the before mentioned channel between Cape Barren and the large island; and a remarkable round hill bore to the west, over the extreme of a projecting point, which seems to be the northern most part of Cape Barren Island. From the high land of the Cape itself, the low extreme runs out to the eastward a mile or two; and off it is a small flat island, connected by a reef with a pointed rock above water, a quarter of a mile east-south-east of the islet. On this rock the sea broke with great violence, between the islet and the Cape the channel seemed deep. Captain Furneaux noted this small island and rock, and it was probably these breakers that induced him to denominate the space off the same side of these islands, the Bay of Shoals.
    At a quarter past six in the evening, we hauled south-west