Between Howe’s Foreland and Cape Digby, the shore forms (besides the several lesser bays and harbours) one great bay that extends several leagues to the S.W., where it seemed to lose itself in various arms running in, between the mountains.  A prodigious quantity of sea-weed grows all over it, which seemed to be the same sort of weed that Sir Joseph Banks distinguished by the name of fucus giganteus.  Some of this weed is of a most enormous length, though the stem is not much thicker than a man’s thumb.  I have mentioned, that on some of the shoals upon which it grows, we did not strike ground with a line of twenty-four fathoms.  The depth of water, therefore, must have been greater.  And as this weed does not grow in a perpendicular direction, but makes a very acute angle with the bottom, and much of it afterward spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I am well warranted to say, that some of it grows to the length of sixty fathoms and upward.

At one o’clock (having run two leagues upon a S.E. 1/2 E. course, from noon) we sounded, and found eighteen fathoms water, and a bottom of fine sand.  Seeing a small bending in the coast, on the north side of Cape Digby, I steered for it.  It was my intention to anchor there, if I should find it might be done with safety, and to land on the Cape, to examine what the low land within it produced.  After running in one league, we sounded again, and found thirteen fathoms; and immediately after, saw a shoal right before us, that seemed to extend off from the shore, from which we were distant about two miles.  This discovery obliged us to haul off, E. by S., one league, where our depth of water increased to twenty-five fathoms.  We then steered along shore, and continued in the same depth, over a bottom of fine sand, till Cape Digby bore W., two leagues distant, when we found twenty-six fathoms.

After this we did not strike ground, though we tried several times; but the ship having a good deal of way, ran the line out before the lead could reach the bottom, and being disappointed in my views both of anchoring and of landing, I would not shorten sail, but pushed forward, in order to see as much of the coast as possible before night.  From Cape Digby, it trends nearly S.W. by S. for about four or five leagues, or to a low point, to which, in honour of her majesty, I gave the name of Point Charlotte, and it is the southernmost on the low coast.

Six leagues from Cape Digby, in the direction of S.S.W. 1/2 W., is a pretty high projecting point, which was called Prince of Wales’s Foreland; and six leagues beyond that, in the same direction, and in the latitude of 49 deg. 54’ S., and the longitude of 70 13’ E., is the most southerly point of the whole coast, which I distinguished by the name of Cape George, in honour of his majesty.