The latter, although very high coloured, is of wholesome quality; but in bad weather is inconvenient to be procured on account of the surf.

Water for common purposes of cooking may be had on a sandy beach a little without the entrance, but it is of a mineral quality, and of brackish taste.

It is high water at full and change at eight o'clock, and the tide rises from five to ten feet.

The variation of the observatory was 5 degrees 14 minutes East.
CAPE BEDFORD (latitude 15 degrees 16 minutes 19 seconds, longitude 145 degrees 17 minutes 19 seconds) is high, and forms a steep slope to the sea: it appeared to be bold to.* Between it and Cape Flattery is a bay backed by low land, about five miles deep; but it is exposed to the wind, unless there is anchorage under the north-west end of Cape Bedford.
(*Footnote.

Shoal water extends for nearly a mile round Cape Bedford.