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 �error, and on this o.sion a velBr idemble oho was detoct .- When. Capta. Flinders passed .round .Van Diemen's ld in the Norfolks h e .obtained a ,meridional s/pplemontary altitude of the. si �the south, his vessel being under the land, , which made th South.west, Cape in '4 �fk; ,lt finding the: next day, that' his  'ff 40" in rro' to the north, he asiigl ,tO .t/ie 'cape ' positioa of 48 �.. Ia .the. lntrle- tion to his voyage* he makes some remarks in a note upon the positions assigned to it by Captaias . CoOk and Furneaux ;' the 'latter officer placed it in 4a �, in whioh I.' also found it to be by its transient bearing from the South Cape, ]By a series of' bearings' carried 1ong the coast, is p0sitiol is thirty-three miles W. 3 �tlue, froIn the South CaB, All part of the coast in this interval are pro- portionally in error as to latitude, bat tolera- . bly well placed in reference to'the coast. The subjoined we the positions now assigned to the following places, v/.: South (Jape .., . 4 088; , . 146 �ewstone . , . .48 40 .. 14o ' lgouth-west Cape . . 48 3o . 14o IS.

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