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off Cape Maria Van Diemen

more passd in sight of Cape Maria & the 3 Kings

31. Wind as yesterday  sea something abated  stood in for the Land which we had not now seen for some time  dared not venture very near as the wind was right on shore  it appeard very sandy & barren

Janry 1770.1. The new year began with more moderate weather than the old one ended with but wind as foul as ever  we venturd to go a little nearer the land which appeard on this side the cape much as it had done on the other  almost intirely occupied by vast sands  our Surveyors suppose the Cape shapd like a shoulder of mutton with the Knuckle placd inwards  where they say the land cannot be above 2 or 3 miles over & that here most probably in high winds the sea washes quite over the sands which in that place are low

2  Weather not yet setled  in the morn we stood S. & soon lost sight of the land which we saw no more all day

3. Stood in for the land with weather more more moderate than it has been for some

 

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