XII.  UPRIGHT BAY.  This bay may be safely entered, as there is no obstruction but what is above water.  The wood here is very small, but we found sufficient to keep up our stock.  The water is excellent, and in great plenty.  As to provisions, we got only a few wild fowl, rock-fishes and mussels.  The landing is bad.  The latitude of this place is 53 deg. 8’S., longitude 75 deg.35 W.; the variation two points easterly.  The water rises and falls about five feet, but the tide or current is very irregular.  We anchored here on the 18th of March, and sailed again on the 10th of April.

There are three very good bays a little beyond Cape Shut-up, which we called River Bay, Lodging Bay, and Wallis’s Bay.  Wallis’s Bay is the best.

About half way between Elizabeth’s Bay and York Road, lies Mussel Bay, where there is very good anchorage with a westerly wind.  There is also a bay, with good anchorage, opposite to York Road, and another to the eastward of Cape Cross-tide, but this will hold only a single ship.  Between Cape Cross and Saint David’s Head, lies Saint David’s Sound, on the south side of which we found a bank of coarse sand and shells, with a depth of water from nineteen to thirty fathom, where a ship might anchor in case of necessity; and the master of the Swallow found a very good small bay a little to the eastward of Saint David’s Head.  A little to the eastward of Cape Quod, lies Island Bay, where the Swallow lay some time, but it is by no means an eligible situation.  The ground of Chance Bay is very rocky and uneven, and for that reason should be avoided.

As all the violent gales by which we suffered in this navigation, blew from the westward, it is proper to stand about a hundred leagues or more to the westward, after sailing out of the streight, that the ship may not be endangered on a lee-shore, which at present is wholly unknown.

The following table shews the courses and distances, from point to point, in the streight of Magellan, by compass.[49]

[Footnote 49:  Bougainville, in the account of his voyage, has given a tolerably minute chart of the straight of Magellan, but the names do not correspond with those used here, or by the English navigators in general.  Perhaps the fullest and most accurate chart of this very intricate and unsafe passage ever published, is to be found in the American Atlas of Jefferys, London, 1775.  It is enlarged from one published at Madrid in 1709, improved from the surveys and observations of Byron, Wallis, and Carteret, and compared with those of Bougainville.  Like all the works of Jefferys, the Arrowsmith of his day, it exhibits most commendable diligence and attention to every source of information.  After all, however, it seems unlikely that this streight will ever become well known to Europeans, the inducement to navigate it being indeed very inconsiderable at any time, and the dangers it presents always highly formidable.—­E.]