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1798             passage through the large island bearing north-half-east about five miles,+
February       and the largest of these we passed to leeward north-west-by-west two or
Thursday 8     three leagues. About one, we found ourselves set considerably to the westward, as in the morning we had to the eastward; so much so, that by steering south-east-by-south we came up, at four o'clock, with a small. rocky. ragged, pyramidal-shaped island, which at two had born south-quarter-west seven or eight miles. There is a chasm in this pyramid, through which the daylight appears when bearing about west-north-west. We passed one mile to windward of it and saw a reef running three quarters of a mile out from its south-end.
At six, we saw land bearing E.b.N ½ N, and thence to E ¼ N appearing to be the south end of an island and about five leagues distant. The south extreme of another range of hills bore south-east-by-east six or seven leagues. The wind still continued from the eastward, but soon after came round from the north and north-north-west. At eleven, we found ourselves within a mile of a low island or point and about the same time it fell calm and remained Friday 9 so till four in the morning; during which, we were set four or five miles to the westward. At daylight, the low point bore south-east-three-quarters-east six or seven miles, and now proved to be part of the land set the preceding evening, which at this time was judged to be one very large
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+ Future observations shew that this distance is too small.