Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0160
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along the Shore
wood behind these were another ridge of hills coverd in many places with snow which from its pure whiteness & smoothness in the morn & the many cracks & intervals that appeard among it at night we conjecturd to be newly falln
15. Little wind in the morn towards Even a brisk breeze the countrey today appeard coverd with steep hills whose sides were but ill wooded but on their tops was large quantities of snow especialy on the sides that lookd towards the South we imagind that about noon we passd by some considerable river as the sea was almost coverd with leaves small twigs & blades of Grass - many Albatrosses about the ship today we have not been absolutely without them since we came on this side the land
16. Much snow on the ridges of the high hills two were however seen on which was little or none whatever the cause of it might be I could not guess they were quite bare of trees or any Kind of Vegetables & seemd to consist of a mouldering soft stone of the colour of Brick or light red ocre - about noon the