We had now a fair wind and might have done a great deal during the night but I had my doubts whether this land which fell off to the northward should not have been followed and kept on board, as from a small chart given to me by Sir Joseph Banks I found that, as far as the coast had been surveyed the land trained off to the northward in the same form nearly as it did here from Cape Patton--with this difference that the cape I allude to on the chart had several islands lying off it.
Neither did the latitude exactly correspond and the land which it laid down running to the northward was low and bushy, whereas that which I saw was high with large forests of trees and no islands near it.

I therefore chose the middle road.

Made sail and ran 60 miles eastward judging if it was a bay I should see the eastern extremity of it.

At daylight, however, we could see nothing anywhere from the masthead, but the looming of the land we had left behind.

We now bore up and ran north by west and at six we saw the land again ahead forming a very deep bay, which I could not see the bottom of from the masthead.* (* (Note in log.) Had Grant penetrated this bay he would have made a great discovery for he would have found Port Phillip.