This famous Cape was passed by him on the next day, when he entered the Southern Atlantic Ocean.

In some charts Cape Horn is laid down as belonging to a small island; but this was neither confirmed, nor could it be contradicted by our navigators; for several breakers appeared in the coast, both to the east and west of it, and the hazy weather rendered every object very indistinct.

Though the summits of some of the hills were rocky, the sides and valleys seemed covered with a green turf, and wooded in tufts.
In ranging Staten Island, a good port was found, situated three leagues to the westward of St.John, and in a northern direction.

Upon account of the day on which the discovery of this port was made (being the 1st of January), Captain Cook gave it the name of New Year's Harbour.

The knowledge of it may be of service to future navigators.
Indeed, it would be more convenient for ships bound to the west, or round Cape Horn, if its situation would permit them to put to sea with an easterly and northerly wind.