Endeavour journal, 1 January 1770 (Series 03.494)

Notes:	Page header reads: 'of Cape Maria Van Diemen'
Author:	Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
Date:	1 January 1770
Series title:	Series 03: The Endeavour journal of Joseph Banks, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771
Frame numbers:	CY 3010 / 117
Transcript:	1. The new year began with more moderate weather than the old one ended with, but wind as foul as ever. We venturd to go a little nearer the land which appeard on this side the cape much as it had done on the other, almost intirely occupied by vast sands: our Surveyors suppose the Cape shapd like a shoulder of mutton with the Knuckle placd inwards, where they say the land cannot be above 2 or 3 miles over and that here most probably in high winds the sea washes quite over the sands which in that place are low.

Papers of Sir Joseph Banks