Mr.
Cook having taken up some of the loose stones which lay upon the ground, applied them to the needle, but they produced no effect; whence he concluded that in the hills there was iron ore, traces of which he had remarked both here and in the neighbouring parts.

After he had made his observations upon the hill, he proceeded with Dr.
Solander up the inlet.

He set out with the first of the flood, and had advanced above eight leagues, long before it was high-water.

The breadth of the inlet, thus far, was from two to five miles, upon a direction south-west by south; but here it opened every way, and formed a large lake, which to the north-west communicated with the sea.

Our commander not only saw the sea in this direction, but found the tide of flood coming strongly in from that point.