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six miles. Near the middle of the former, I noticed 

 a patch of discoloured water, which has since been 

 found by a merchant vessel to be a shoal. 



The land over the latter place is very high, pre- 

 senting several singular peaks, one more prominent 

 than the rest, in the shape of a finger. That over 

 Trinity Bay, which we were the greater part of the 

 day crossing, is also of great altitude. In its 

 south corner we noticed the river-like opening 

 spoken of by Captain King, lying in the rear of 

 some remarkable peaks. We had been informed 

 by him, that the greater part of the coast between 

 Weary Bay and Endeavour River, including the 

 Hope Islands, had been altered from his original 

 survey, a tracing of which he had furnished us with 

 previous to leaving Sydney. The few bear- 

 ings we obtained while at anchor, induced us to 

 consider it correct, a fact we further proved during 

 the early part of the next day's run, as the course 

 steered from our anchorage N. by W. ^ W., 

 carried us a little more than a mile west of 

 the Hope Islands. Had their assigned position in 

 the chart been correct, our course would have led 

 us right over the western isle. On detecting 

 this error, we found it necessary to re-survey this 

 part of the coast, and it affords me much pleasure, 

 after so doing, to be able to bear testimony to the 

 extreme correctness of Captain King's original 

 chart above alluded to. Soon after passing 

 the Hope Islands, we saw the reef where Cook's 



