Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0115
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To Brasil
Novr. 1768
as well as we.
The Land all along this Coast has been exceedingly high inland except in the bay mentiond on the 7th the mountains seen now about Rio Janeiro were immensely high so that some of our people compared them with the Pike of Tenerife tho I do not myself think they deserve a comparison so much higher is the Pike notwithstanding the hills are high & begin to rise near the shore the beach is sandy & appears to be of a firm sand
In the Course of this Evening we aproachd very near the Land & found it very cold to our feelings at least the Thermometer at ten O'Clock stood at 68¼ which gave us hopes that the countrey would be cooler than we should expect from the accounts of travellers especially Mr Biron [also spelt Byron] who says