Continual rains prevented them from taking a survey.

The land here was found much higher than at Port Jackson, more rocky, and equally covered with timber.

Large trees were seen growing even on the summits of the mountains, which appeared accessible only to birds.

Immediately round the headland that forms the southern entrance into the bay, there is a third branch, which Governor Phillip thought the finest piece of water he had ever seen; and which therefore he thought worthy to be honoured with the name of Pitt Water.
This, as well as the south-west branch, is of sufficient extent to contain all the navy of Great Britain.

But on a narrow bar which runs across the entrance it has only eighteen feet depth at low water.