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PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION A. 



Sir Thomas Brisbane, 

 Captain King, 1817 



1822 



33° 51' 30" 

 33 51 18 



Mean Latitude of Fort Macquarie — 

 Of Longitudes — 



Captain Cook in 1770 



Hunter, 1788 



Lieut. Dawes 

 ,, Bradley 

 *Malaspina, 1793 

 Broughton and Crossby 

 Captain Flinders, 1795-6 ... 



1802 



De Freycinet, 1802 



M. D. Espinosa, 1793 



Sir Thomas Brisbane 



Rumker, 1822 



Captain King, 1817 



Mean of all- 



151 15 16 



Captain P. P. King's paper on the Maritime Geography of 

 Australia which is given in Baron Field's "Geographical Memoirs," 

 was read 2nd October, 1822, before the Philosophical Society 

 of Australia. It gives a short note of Flinders' and Oxley's 

 discoveries, and then a narrative of his own in continuation of 

 the foregoing. He mentions, (p. 285), that the spring tides rise 

 thirty feet at Prince Regent's River, and sometimes ran at seven 

 knots. He also mentions the general productions of intertropical 

 Austi^alia and the natives of New Holland. 



Li the "Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western 

 Coasts of Australia," (Vol. 1, p. 349), Capt. King mentions that 

 the southerly current on the coast had set the vessel one hundred 

 and fifty miles south during the storm, and for twenty-four hours 

 at the rate of three miles per hour. He also gives details of 

 winds, weather and currents on the coast of Australia, variation 

 and dip of the magnetic needle of nine places on shore, and at 

 fourteen places at sea ; with the geograpliical positions of a 

 number of points in his survey, (p. 404.) 



In the Royal Astronomical Society's Notices there are eight 

 papers by Captain P. P. King. Four refer to observations of 

 comets, amongst others, the Great Comet of 1843 ; one to an 

 occultation of Jupiter and his Satellites ; another to a lunar 

 eclipse ; another to a transit of Mercury ; and the last to a 

 solar eclipse. 



When the present Sydney Observatoiy was talked about, 

 Admiral King was the adviser of the Government as to where it 

 should be placed. (See Votes and Proceedings, N.S. Wales, 1852.) 



Owing to some mistake Collins gives this 151° 18' 8 '. 



