Dr.Solander and I was upon a rising Ground up the inlet, which we thought had at one time or another been overflow'd by the Sea, and if so great part of the Country must at that time been laid under Water.

Up in the lakes, or lagoons, I suppose, are shell fish, on which the few Natives subsist.

We found Oysters sticking to most of the Rocks upon the Shore, which were so small, as not to be worth the picking off.* (* Cook was very unfortunate in his landing here.

The channel is at the end of a long headland between two bays, Shoalwater Bay and Broad Sound, and was a very unlikely place either to find water or get any true idea of the country.) Thursday, 31st.

Winds Southerly and South-East; Dark, Hazey weather, with rain.