224 RETURN TO SWAN RIVER. 



sidercd safe at this time of the year, the ship was 

 taken into Owen's anchorage under the guidance of 

 Mr. Usborne. We first steered for the Mew Stone, 

 bearinof south, until the leadino^ marks could be made 

 out ; they are the western of two flat rocks lying 

 close off" the west side of Carnac Island and a large 

 white sand patch on the north side of Garden 

 Island. The rock must be kept its own breadth open 

 to the eastward of the highest part of the patch ; 

 these marks lead over a sort of bar or rido'e of sand 

 in 3 and 3^ fathoms ; when the water deepened to 5 

 and 7 fathoms, the course was then changed to E.S.E. 

 for a patch of low cliffs about two miles south of 

 Freemantle, which brought us up to Owen's anchor- 

 age in 7 and S fathoms, passing between Success and 

 Palmelia Banks. 



Thus concluded our first cruize on this almost 

 hitherto unknown part of the continent; and 

 lookino- at its results we had every reason to feel 

 satisfied, having appended 300 miles of new land to 

 our geographical store, and succeeded in an object of 

 paramount interest in this country, the discovery of 

 a river. Besides the nautical information obtained, 

 some additions were made to the secondary objects 

 of the voyage, by increasing our knowledge of the 

 natural history and indigenous productions of North- 

 western Australia. During the period of our visit 

 we had a temperature varying from 76" to 125° ; the 

 weather generally fine, with moderate south-easterly 

 winds, and occasionally heavy squalls from the east- 



