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in the fketch of that coaft here inferted ; and 1 infcrt ir, not j^\777^^.^ 

 as the refuU of a more faithful, but merely of a fecond ^ — .'-— ' 

 examination. The longitude was determined by a great 

 number of lunar obfervations, which we had before we 

 made the land, while v^e were in fight of ir, and after we 

 had left it ; and reduced to Adventure Bay, and the feveral 

 principal points, by the time-keeper. The following Table 

 will exhibit both the longitude and latitude at one view : 



Adventure Bay, 

 Tafraan's Head, 

 South Cape, 

 South Weft Cape, 

 Swilly Ille, 



, , „ (Variation of the comnafs s° i^' Eaft. 



Adventure Bay, "J^^. ^ , ^ , t^ j r T ^t ji = / 

 ^ l Dip of the South End of the Needle 70 15-1'. 



We had high-water on the 29th, being two days before 

 the laft quarter of the moon, at nine in the morning. The 

 perpendicular rife then was eighteen inches ; and there 

 was no appearance of its having ever exceeded two feet and 

 a half. Thefe are all the memorials ufeful to navigation, 

 which ray fhort flay has enabled me to preferve, with re- 

 fpeft to Van Diemen's Land. 



Mr. Anderfon, my Surgeon, with his ufual diligence, 

 fpent the few days we remained in Adventure Bay, in exa- 

 mining the country. Elis account of its natural produc- 

 tions, with which he favoured me, will more than com- 

 penfate for my filence about them : fome of his remarks on 

 the inhabitants will fupply what I may have omitted or re- 

 prefented imperfedly ; and his fpecinien of their language, 



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