The shore is in general a flat sandy beach, the sea at present making no breach upon it.
"December 4th.

As we stood along the shore steering eastward, the land as far as we could see bearing south-east.

Hauled close up for it.

This forming a conspicuous cape, I named it Bridgewater* after the Duke of that title.

(* This cape has been described since as having "a bald pate and shoulders besprinkled with white sand." Cape Bridgewater forms with Cape Northumberland another bend called Discovery Bay where the tides meet and create a very turbulent sea.