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[1802 July Monday 26th. H.M.S. Investigator] along the east coast - Cape Byron and Pt. Lookout
[Astronomical observations not reproduced - see original journal]

The projecting heads near us at 2 o'clock have a tolerably fertile appearance. In the bight south of them, was a smoke close to the water side. The bight to the northward may probably afford shelter from winds at south. C. Byron makes like an island, the land immediately behind it being low, but it some rises towards that body of mountains at the top of which is Mt. Warning. - C.C. [Captain Cook] having passed this cape and as far as Point Lookout in the day time, I steered on all night towards C. Moreton; for the space from the point to the last cape had been previously examined in the Norfolk. - The hills about Mt. Warning are well covered with wood, and the country has a tolerable appearance even near the shore; but from hence to the northward, sand prevails more or less
   When Mt. Warning was seen it could not be less than twenty leagues distant and may certainly be seen some leagues further. - In the Norfolk sloop I laid down Pt. Lookout 201/2' to the south of capt. Cooks situation of it, and the observations this day at noon confirm the propriety of it. Our longitude agrees much nearer with his