NEW SOUTH WALES. 2/9 



which bore S. W. by W. appeared irregular 

 and very much broken. 



At five in the afternoon they anchored two 

 miles and a half to the Westward of the small 

 island, setting the vessel to the Northward. 



The next morning thev weighed at nine, with 

 an easterly wind, and steered towards a small 

 break that presented itself in the bottom of an 

 extensive bay, lying between the two extremes 

 then in view. The break was not sufficiently 

 distinct to have justified in itself alone a reason- 

 able supposition of an inlet, but that it was cor- 

 roborated by the direction of the ebb tide, 

 which, while the sloop was at anchor, was ob- 

 served to come from the S. S. W. or directly out 

 of the ba} r , running at the rate of two miles and 

 a half per hour. By noon, they ascertained 

 that there was not any inlet, they bore away to 

 the Westward along the land. 



Their distance from the shore did not exceed 

 a mile and a half. The back country consisted 

 of high mountains, whose parallel edges were 

 one above another lo a considerable distance 

 inland. The land in front appeared both woody, 

 bushy, and sandy. 



In the afternoon they ran between a sandy 

 point, with shoal water off it, and two islands. 

 One of these, named Waterhouse Isle, is be- 

 tween two and three miles in length, high, but 

 level, and covered with large wood. The other 

 is small, low, rocky, and nearly bare. The 

 coast now trended to the S. S. W. the land 

 sloping up from the sea a moderate height, with 



