[The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea by George Collingridge]@TWC D-Link bookThe First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea CHAPTER XI 32/60
The variation of the compass is 7 deg.
N.E. The land which forms, the bay runs directly N.on the E.side, with sloping heights and peopled valleys well covered with trees.
This side ends at the mouth of the bay with a height rising to a peak, and the coast runs E.and then S.E., but we could not see how it ends. The other land to the W.runs nearly N.W., and to the point is 11 leagues in length, consisting of a range of hills of moderate height, which the sun bathes when it rises and where there are patches without trees, covered with dried up grass. Here are ravines and streams, some falling from the heights to the skirts of the hills, where many palm groves and villages were seen.
From the point on this side the coast turns to the W. The front of the bay, which is to the S., is 3 leagues long, and forms a beach.
In the middle there is a river which was judged to be the size of the Guadalquivir at Seville.
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