19G THE SEA BREEZE. 



resembled the rusliing sound of a passing gust of 

 wind. Among the trees, I noticed for the first time 

 the Banksia, common in Western Australia; Mr. 

 Cunningham, the botanist who accompanied Captain 

 King, did not consider its indigenous empire ex- 

 tended to the N.W. coast. Of the other kinds, and 

 which complete all the variety we observed on this part 

 of the continent, were the mimosa, acacia, papyrus, 

 and two sorts of Eucalyptus ; there were also several 

 plants of the order Leguminosse. We had a breeze 

 throughout the entire day, from N.E. till 1 o'clock, 

 then W.N.W. till near midnight ; this westerly or 

 sea breeze, reached us within ten minutes of the 

 time it did yesterday, a regularity we found to pre- 

 vail the few days we spent on this part of the 

 coast. The tide (being near the spring) fell in the 

 night 36 feet, leaving the greater part of the bay 

 dry at low water. Our observations for latitude 

 placed Eagle Point in 16" 10^' south. 



April 11. — We left with the first streak of dawn, 

 and pursued our course to the southward, passing 

 inside a small reef lying half a mile west from 

 Eagle Point. The eastern shore now took a S. 

 by W. direction, forming shallow bights, flanked 

 by hills of moderate elevation ; our next station 

 was an islet at the head of Collier Bay, bearing 

 S.S.W. ^ W. 15 miles from Eagle Point: it was 

 in the mouth of a shoal bay about three miles 

 deep in a W.S.W. direction, the shores of which 

 were lined with mangroves and overlooked by a 



