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[1802 July Sunday - 25th. H.M.S. Investigator]
along the east coast - Smoky Cape and Shoal Bay
[Astronomical observations not reproduced - see original journal]

From Smoky Cape the land hollows back to the N.W. a little and then resumes its northerly direction. At intervals there are some high hills near the shore, and inland is a high ridge of mountains, which extends from abreast of our situation at 5h. towards the Solitary Isles. These mountains are irregular and rugged. On approaching the islands we come to the part seen in the day by C. C. [Captain Cook] as well as the Norfolk, which last saw it as far as Shoal Bay in lat. 29º.26'So.
            
In the morning we came in with Shoal Bay, as I expected. The entrance of the bay is not distinguishable at the distance of even a few miles, but I knew it by a peaked hummock to the southward, and by the south head which is higher than the neighbouring parts of the shore. - Nothing remarkable presented itself during the mornings run except the two patches of dangerous breakers, which lie abt. 21/2 miles off the shore. - There are some hills of moderate elevation a few miles from the water, but the shore is mostly sandy, and rather low: vegetation does not seem to be luxuriant.