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Jack ;'as a signal ’to thé;vèskeftthat this-was |la | righkeiitranceOft
the:Bivefmp-were-ini search ®fcJ1 must remark,tbakthis island
is' ivell ealdnlatied for idèfending thé: Rivers entran€%vanda p?p*
p e r p t a d i t B w e f t k > r d i g b f e h o p s e v t ; Between
thé island and. -thé maini there is -an opening .of about three
cahjes’llengthy which- isrfnll éfrOeks, with a ’he^vy
Ovèr/themythé-effects of whi0h are? feit; from.skle (tó. si4e..<jf the
river. ti On thisiridéj) therefore,! it "would bé dang^ousfto .attempt
a"passage -with a vessel,-'since;) should there! be any*-; channel
found, it- must neeessariliy’ be narrow and crooked y wesselsv-thên
must go round) the.island in entering, as it appears, by;theBlatej
-the "Lady iMel^iknd .Manecs schooner ate doing;. Opposifê to
this fehasifflL the'different stratacb^ feaals. arë dijseoy^red,|}gS^iJ^tf
itig a che-ekered-likeappearanoe.) I t should seeih thjat this. aer
|>aratioii frorhcithe: pMn I has been produee'd by isome* violent
fconvulsionofnature. The*;roek%Bom; the.xfesp^tion itfWhjch
thby^owiStand, and the strata oft coals Oh
Connection -which' once .subsisted;between the^ main land and it.
tphe Colony Of : New-South Wales cannot'fail of reaping great
advantage ;fromaonine Of coals so near to it, ahdspfêasy'.tprbe
worked. I
-:r We rcturaed On board the i vessel, and set about towing, and
sweeping her in. with all:possible dispatch. At noon the .latit
tude was, by observation, 32° Ö7 34” S. ;the-island* which w§
Gained - Coal Island; bearing W. N. W. distant:. thseë; oft fpMft
miles. I compute the true latitude of the island to bd’32°'5ö,jS.
- By the time we approached the entrance the ebb had set
strong onft ^nd mn with muebforce; however, by; dint of warpr
ing,-we brought up unjder the island for the night in three and
a half fathoms water, within pistol-shot Of thè Shore. At day-flight
we proceeded up to a saw-pit made for the purpose, of,
cutting cedar, which is growing in abundance on the banks Of
that