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East Coast, & V.D.'s Land.]

supplement was taken to the south, and gave the latitude 43° 27½′. A steep head which lies N. 79° E. four or five miles from the South-west Cape, then bore S. 74° W., three miles; whence the latitude of the Cape should be 43° 29′, which is 10 less than given by captain Furneaux, and 8′ by captain Cook. This difference naturally excited some suspicion of an error in the observation, and I measured the supplement in the same manner on the following noon, when it gave 2′ 40″ less than the latitude determined by D'Entrecasteaux in Storm Bay. The South-west Cape is therefore placed 2′ 40″ further south than my observation gave it; that is, in latitude 43° 32′. The longitude of the Cape, from the observations taken off Rocky Point and brought forward by the survey, would be 145° 47′; but its situation in 146° 7′, by captain Cook, appears to be preferable: D'Entrecasteaux places it in 146° 0′.

The nearest land, at noon, was a steep head bearing N. 66° E., one mile and a half; and between this, and the head which bore S. 74° W., the shore forms a sandy bay four miles deep, where it is probable there may be good anchorage, if two clumps of rock, which lie in the entrance, will admit of a passage in. After taking