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and Eaſt end of Albemarle Iſle, when we tried for ſounding with one hundred fathom of line but found no bottom. The following day, as ſoon as it was light, we bore up to round the South and Weſt end of Albemarle Iſle, called, by the Buccaneers, Chriſtopher's Point. Within a few miles of it, the Latitude was, by obſervation, 0° 55′ 14″ South. The extremities of Albemarle Iſle, bearing from Eaſt 22° South, to North 10° Eaſt; and of Narborough Iſle from North, to North 20° Weſt.
March 23.A large bay opened to our view, which was formed by the South and Weſt points of Albemarle Iſle, and the Eaſt part of Narborough Iſle, having received originally from the Buccaneers the name of Elizabeth Bay. As it is very capacious, we conjectured that we ſhould find good anchorage; I therefore accompanied the chief mate to examine it, but we could find no bottom for two leagues at the diſtance of a mile or a mile and a half from the ſhore, with one hundred and fifty fathom of line. The inhoſpitable appearance of this place was ſuch as I had never before ſeen, nor had I ever beheld ſuch wild cluſters of hillocks, in ſuch ſtrange irregular ſhapes and forms, as the ſhore preſented, except on the fields of ice near the South Pole. The baſe appeared to be one entire clinker to a conſiderable diſtance