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appeared to take more care of her person than her 

 two companions, who were aborigines of pure blood. 

 A few wild flowers were tastefully entwined with 

 her hair, which was dressed with some pretensions 

 to elegance. They had a pack of dogs along with 

 them, and depended in a great measure for their 

 maintenance on the Wallabi they killed. The 

 skin also of these animals constitutes to them an 

 important article of trade. 



It was the 15th before we had completed for 

 the present our survey of this part, owing as I have 

 before observed, to the constant bad weather, 

 which was doubly felt by the boats in which all 

 the materials for the chart of this neighbourhood 

 were collected. We now examined the coast to 

 Circular Head, under the north side of which we 

 anchored in 7 fathoms on the morning of the 18th, 

 after spending a day under the S.E. corner off 

 Robbins Island, where we found good anchorage 

 in westerly winds. Making too free with the shore 

 with a low sun ahead, we grounded for a short time 

 on a shingle spit extending ofl" the low point N.W. 

 from Circular Head. Three quarters of a mile 

 E.N.E. from this point is a dangerous rocky ledge 

 just awash, on which several vessels have run. By 

 keeping the bluff extreme of Circular Head open 

 it may always be avoided. 



The latter is a singular cliffy mass of trappean 

 rock, rising abruptly from the water till its flattened 

 crest reaches an elevation of 490 feet. 



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