paler than usual, were of opinion that the bottom of Moreton’s Bay opened into a river.  We had here thirty-four fathom water, and a fine sandy bottom:  This alone would have produced the change that had been observed in the colour of the water; and it was by no means necessary to suppose a river to account for the land at the bottom of the Bay not being visible, for supposing the land there to be as low as we knew it to be in a hundred other parts of the coast, it would have been impossible to see it from the station of the ship; however, if any future navigator should be disposed to determine the question, whether there is or is not a river in this place, which the wind would not permit us to do, the situation may always be found by three hills which lie to the northward of it, in the latitude of 26 deg. 53’.  These hills lie but a very little way inland, and not far from each other:  They are remarkable for the singular form of their elevation, which very much resembles a glasshouse, and for which reason I called them the Glass Houses:  The northermost of the three is the highest and largest:  There are also several other peaked hills inland to the northward of these, but they are not nearly so remarkable.[74] At noon, our latitude was, by observation, 26 deg. 28’ S. which was ten miles to the northward of the log, a circumstance which had never before happened upon this coast; our longitude was 206 deg. 46’.  At this time we were between two and three leagues from the land, and had twenty-four fathom water.  A low bluff point, which was the south head of a sandy bay, bore N. 62 W., distant three leagues, and the northermost point of land in sight bore N. 1/4 E. This day we saw smoke in several places, and some at a considerable distance inland.

[Footnote 74:  The depth of the Bay from Cape Moreton is said to be 34 miles—­it then contracts into a small stream; and there is a considerable river near Glass-House Peaks, as they have been called.—­E.]

In steering along the shore at the distance of two leagues, our soundings were from twenty-four to thirty-two fathom, with a sandy bottom.  At six in the evening, the northermost point of land bore N. 1/4 W., distant four leagues; at ten it bore N.W. by W. 1/2 W. and as we had seen no land to the northward of it, we brought-to, not well knowing which way to steer.

At two in the morning, however, we made sail with the wind at S.W., and at day-light, we saw the land extending as far as N. 1/4 E. the point we had set the night before bore S.W. by W., distant between three and four leagues.  It lies in latitude 25 deg. 58’, longitude 206 deg. 48’ W.:  The land within it is of a moderate and equal height, but the point itself is so unequal, that it looks like two small islands lying under the land, for which reason I gave it the name of Double Island Point; it may also be known by the white cliffs on the north side of it.  Here the land trends to the N.W. and forms a large open bay, the bottom of which is