is a small island.  Their situation may always be known by the peaked mountain which has been just mentioned, and which bears from them S.W. by W. for this reason I have named it Mount Warning.  It lies seven or eight leagues inland, in latitude 28 deg. 22’ S. The land about it is high and hilly, but it is of itself sufficiently conspicuous to be at once distinguished from every other object.  The Point off which these shoals lie, I have named Point Danger.  To the northward of this Point the land is low, and trends N.W. by N.; but it soon turns again more to the northward.

[Footnote 73:  The appearance and adjustment of the hills in New Holland have attracted very considerable regard.  They are thought to bear a strong resemblance in disposition to the Andes in South America.  Some interesting information on this topic will be given when we treat of another voyage.  This hint may suffice for the present.—­E.]

At noon, we were about two leagues from the land, and by observation, in latitude 27 deg. 46’ S., which was seventeen miles to the southward of the log; our longitude was 206 deg. 26’ W. Mount Warning bore S. 26 W. distant fourteen leagues, and the northermost land in sight bore N. We pursued our course along the shore, at the distance of about two leagues, in the direction of N. 1/4 E. till between four and five in the afternoon, when we discovered breakers in our larboard bow.  Our depth of water was thirty-seven fathom, and at sun-set, the northermost land bore N. by W. the breakers N.W. by W. distant four miles, and the northermost land set at noon, which formed a point, and to which I gave the name of Point Look-out, W. distant five or six miles, in the latitude of 27 deg. 6’.  On the north side of this Point, the shore forms a wide open bay, which I called Moreton’s Bay, in the bottom of which the land is so low that I could but just see it from the top-mast head.  The breakers lie between three or four miles from Point Look-out; and at this time we had a great sea from the southward, which broke upon them very high.  We stood on N.N.E. till eight o’clock, when having passed the breakers, and deepened our water to fifty-two fathom, we brought-to till midnight, when we made sail again to the N.N.E.  At four in the morning, we had 135 fathom, and when the day broke, I perceived that during the night I had got much farther northward, and from the shore, than I expected from the course we steered, for we were distant at least seven leagues; I therefore hauled in N.W. by W. with a fresh gale at S.S.W.  The land that was farthest to the north the night before, now bore S.S.W. distant six leagues, and I gave it the name of Cape Moreton, it being the north point of Moreton’s Bay:  Its latitude is 26 deg. 56’, and its longitude is 206 deg. 28’.  From Cape Moreton the land trends away west, farther than can be seen, for there is a small space, where at this time no land is visible, and some on board having also observed that the sea looked