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 ], APPENDIX. ,it. but as the account says, that Kangaroo Island was Sect. VI. the same day, which is not!es than one hundred and fifty Coast'. leagues from the above limitlos, it appears too vague to be correct. (See Hotsburgh, 8upp. page 32.) BLACK PYRAMID, Off the north-west end of Van Die- men's Land, in Bass' Strait, is situated almut 4' too much to the southward oft Captain Flinders's chart. Bv. LL'S RocK. Te following account of a tk]c, seen by Mr. B11, the Commander of the ship lfinerva, on her outward=bound passage'to New South Wales, appeared in n Sydn.y (New South Wales) Gazette, of the 16th of De- cember, 18.4. "On the 14th of November die Minerva very narrowly escaped striking on a rock, in the fair way of the west entrance to Bass* Strait, on the south side of Kinl*s Island. Reid's rocks bearing North six miles, and the Bineli Pyra- mid E.S.E.: from this situation the danger was about half a mile off (to the southward); but as the water broke only at intervals of three or four minutes,. although the swell was very heavy, it is probable there may be sufficient depth of water to carry a ship over it. An indifferent ob- servatinn made the latitude of the ship at the time 40 �' In M. De Freycinet*s chart of Bass' Strait, some rocky islets are placed forty miles east of Sea-Elephant Bay. I did not succeed in finding them, although the Mermaid sailed close to their position. (See Vol. i. page 446.) The PYRAMID, at the east end of Bass' Strait, is placed five miles too much to the northward: its true situation is in latitude 39 � 40*, and longitude 147 � A reef of rocks were seen by Lieutenant John Lamb, R.N., oil Cape Albany Otway. (See Hotsburgh, vol. ii. p. 499.)

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