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 144 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROFIC ss- we could make no very particular observation jy upon Reid's Rocks, but they appear to be correctly placed by Captain Flinders. We did-not get through the Strait until the 26th. In passing the Pyrad, it was found to be placed five miles too much to the northward in Captain Flinders' chart. The weather was now thick with heavy rain, and the wind blowi.ng a gale from W.S.W. I became very anxious to arrive at Port Jackson; for we had but five men who could keep watch. The damp weather had attended us with little intermission since our passing Cape Leeuwin, and our people had been constantly wet with the continued breaking over of the sea: indeed the decks had only been twie dry, and that e,en for a few hours, since we left that meridian. 27. On the '27th, by sunset, we were abreast of . Cape Howe; and on the 29th, at noon, the light- house on the south head of the port, was joyfully descried. At eight o'clock in the evening, we entered the heads, and anchored in Sydney Cove at midnight, after an absence of thirty-one weeks and three days. Upon reviewing the proceedings of the voyage, the result of which bore but a small proportion to what we had yet to do, I saw, with no little satis- faction, that I had been enabled to set at rest the

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