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off South Cape

was uncommonly barren  the few flat places we saw seemingly produc'd little or nothing & the rest was all bare rocks  which were amazingly full of Large Veins & patches of some mineral that shone as if it had been polishd or rather lookd as if they were realy pavd with glass  what it was I could not at all guess but it certainly was some mineral & seemd to argue by its immense abundance a countrey abounding in minerals  where if one may judge from the corresponding latitudes of South America in all human probability something very valuable might be found

10. Blew fresh all day but carried us round the Point so to the total demolition of our aerial fabrick calld continent.

11. Fresh gales still & wind that will not let us get to the northward  we stood in with the shore which provd very high & had a most romantick appearance from the immence steepness of the hills  many of which were conical & most had their heads coverd with snow on their sides & bottoms was however a good deal of wood  so much we could see & no more & the wind baulking us would not let us stand nearer the
 

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