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It is stated by Captain Watson 1 that Captain Moore, of the 

 " Charles Eaton" carried CAPTAIN SAMUEL ASHMORE'S CHARTS, 

 which I have been unable to find, although modern Admiralty 

 charts locate several " dangers," etc., as having been " seen by Mr. 

 Ashmore." According to Captain Watson, Ashmore was " a 

 well-known master mariner of Sydney who, like Captain Thomas 

 Beckford Simpson, of a decade or two later, never went a voyage 

 without, on his return, giving his brother mariners and the public 

 the benefit of what he learned by a careful study of the many 

 problems which confronted the early navigators, of the dangers on 

 the Australian coast." 



1 Scottish Australasian, Sept., 1916, p. 4957. 



