[The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson by Ida Lee]@TWC D-Link bookThe Logbooks of the Lady Nelson CHAPTER 1 24/51
One of them was very like the Table Hill at the Cape of Good Hope, the other stands farther into the country. Both are covered with large trees as is also the land which is low and flat as far as the eye can reach.
I named the first of these mountains after Captain Schanck and the other Gambier's Mountain.
The first cape I called Northumberland, after His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. Another smaller, but very conspicuous jut of the land, which we plainly saw when abreast of Cape Northumberland I named Cape Banks.* (* Grant named the two points first sighted Cape Northumberland and Cape Banks and the two mountains behind Mount Gambier and Mount Schanck, names they all still bear.
Grant came in sight of Australia near to the present boundary of Victoria and South Australia.) When the former Cape bears north-west by west distant 8 or 9 miles, Schanck's Mountain loses its table form and appears like a saddle.
There does not appear to be a harbour here, but vessels may find shelter under Cape Northumberland from north and north-north-west winds.
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