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At noon, Cape Schanck bore N. 36° W. five or six miles; the breeze was fresh from the westward, with cloudy weather, and we steered for Point Grant, at the east side of the entrance into Western Port. There is a square-topped rock surrounded with a reef lying off the point; but the Lady Nelson has passed between them, with 3 fathoms water. On reaching within a mile of this reef, at one o'clock, I set We then steered eastward along the south side of Phillip Island, and passed a needle-like rock, lying under the shore. Cape Wollamai is the east end of the island, and forms one side of the small, eastern entrance to the port; and at three o'clock, when it bore N. 14° E, five or six miles, its longitude was ascertained by means of the time keepers to be 145° 25′ east: the latitude deduced from bearings, is 38° 33′ south. Wollamai is the native name for a fish at Port Jackson, called sometimes by the settlers, light-horseman, from the bones of the head having some resemblance to a helmet; and the form of this cape bearing a likeness to the head of the fish, induced Mr. Bass to give it the name of Wollamai.

We ran south-eastward along the shore, at the rate of six or seven knots, until sunset; when a steep head, supposed to be the Cape Liptrap of Captain Grant, was seen through the haze, and our bearings of the land were, We soon afterwards hauled to the wind off shore, under treble-reefed top sails; and the gale increasing, with much swell from the south-westward, the close reefs were taken in. At midnight, tacked to the northward, and stood off and on till day break; the wind