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 360 The country between. Port Bowen and Shoalwater Bay is low and overun wiith mangroves; but Captain Flinders speaks more favourably of the land about the latter bay, particularly in the vicinity of his Pine Mount, where he describes the soil as being fit for cultivation. At Upper Head in Broad Sound, the country appears to be still better ; in addition to which, the great rise of tides might be of considerable importance to that place, should a settlement there ever be contemplated.

Having obtained sights on the beach at Cape Clinton for the time-keepers, we sailed out of this port by the same track that we entered; and held our course to the northward, toward the Northumberland Islads.

At midnight we were abreast of the Percy Islands. At noon the next day we passed to the westward of the islet, marked k 1, and thence steered between the Three Rocks and k 2, and, before sunset, were near l 2, the island on which Captain Flinders landed. The night was passed under sail, and at daylight, when we resumed our course towards the Cumberland Islands, Linné Peak and Shaw's Peak, and the land about Capes. Hillsborough and