making the Ramhead, aeqaiding t$i the hett charts | therefore
the heading® ,uf© laid down in my chart from .14$* iS**,'..
k;Wfc.ttbW:lkpdig. mMe the Qftpe, whieK I presume is that
laid down in the chart I gbt from Sir Joseph Banks*se®& by
Mr. Blinders*# any föfthey observatie® ia unn^essjaryv a&B&ad
the land training along to the northward inaptly a® it is de*
scribed by him.
WBsoh’s Promontory was so named fey Mr. (aooiget Bass,
of bis Maj;fsty;’a aMp Reliaaeft Who. was thé first navigator that
asec^tamed the real O^isteTOf of a Strait separating Van Pfio-
mang Band from Jffifeaft Holland» in hk voyage in a whale boat,
from. Sydney to Western Port.. . Having made, it, I sot ©ffi® one
of my boats early in the mOraihg oj the l;Wh> to endeavour- to
land ojn one of the,islands lying oif i t j bat, after along pull,
found the: one I judged from, its sloping aspect, to be the easiest
for that purpose, a solid rank; f§r a cOj^idteraMc h©*g^4 with
tqo,po^ekhlfos sueha dmail boat as mine*: jMieo ,seVeiai
frnitjesa attempts, I yfas obliged to abandon the ide®» eontenihag
myseff wiffi teeing a yiptr of it, andthc^o contiguous^ (Dm© M
them was an immense rock ; on o©-©^ sde, p«i5feo%j sound,. with
a large hpfe ip the Others in tfie form of' an arch, with a breasts
work rising- high engaighi abeiye. th e level o f t^e^en lopreolind^
|he water fromgetting.mtnit.: the hollow appeared as, if scooped
out by dirfc instead of Hature. I gavd it the name 0# the Hole
in the "Waifs , and to* the range of islands: stretehihg! along the
* Mr. Bass, (from whose authojitv Lieutenant Flinders ba£, ascertgifled the pggjfioij of
Wilfon’8 Promontory) places it in S8l°. 66' S, Lieutenant Grantia S90 ? and Mr. Black
ïn sfp-gr. SsMLBassVlatrtude is byconapufatócn from the WhaleBoat, which tóight be StaBp.
to error, I think a preference may. be given, to Lieutenant Gfaht-’s position, as he had thé adv^
fag%^a,gqQd S^t^i)^, Pi G» !*
t The latitude lpf \VilsonV Promontory I afterward* determined; to he. 40° 2» S. bijtthij
will appear heréafter [hits proper place.L
mam,
mam, Glennie’s Islands, after Mr. George Glennie, a particu-
lar friend o f .Captain Sehahk’s, to Wholn I was utidet pefsOnfel
obligations. Islands there was a
fliok bfush growings WhOfias the land - o f jLi p t r h f ) , already
mention^,. cdhibited a hue leV41'country s farspent
4 ri this survey, I dieined it best to get'Ott board, at thd
teisfel wdl but jwit visible With bet head towards ^ and bn*
calmed* Round-the Promontory we found from f©rt-y-five to
fifty dkthbms water, sand and sheMi* /Towards night we had
the wind E» S. E. with heavy.^lo«d§ which brought on,- with a
sudden shift to N. E. and N .E , by N. a hfeavy squall, accompanied
With much lightning and heavy fain. I t iileirdS up at
twelve; and in the morning we had calm. Weather.
u On the lath we had ftfesh gales and clotidy Wettthhr; Hie
shore we were running along' was low and covered with thick
brttsh,traiftingifi a M. E. direettefl, Which Messieurs Minder^
and Bass hav6.gitbn very acerbate descriptions of. The WCa-
theribAigwery rainy with fresh gates* I was pit; vested from a£-
eertahiing our latitude by Observation/#^
The heavy g^le® with eOfistantrain prevailed oh-th© following
day, which continued until noon of th e T 4 th,- when it moderated,
and became fair at tiriiOs.- This rain had continued to
pour in torrents the heavit^t and longest. I "ever' experienced,
being nearly forty-eight hours. At noon 1 had a sight of the
sten, and found by Observation our latitude to be 37° i s ' §».
longitude 151° 40' lE. I now found we had got to th e E. of
Port Jackson, . as: Sydney 'T ow ff^ r rather Bradtey-S Point;;
Where the-Port stands,- t o ® severalSOtii of lunar ofeserfhtieiis%
found to lie in longitude E. of Greenwich-151° f-8f S"; latitude*
3#° 51 M' ?$. The Weather continued thick with 8. and S. W .
gales, which made me, Owing to these, del-ay sonie' time for fear
of overshooting Port. Jackson, as Wm-dst'^otnetiidtesi
blow