OP LA PEROUSE. 405 



of io if 4" fouth, and longitude of 1 18 6' 34" 

 eaft. 



The pofition of an iflot which bore from 

 north i eaft to north 3 30' weft, at the dif- 

 tance of four myriametcrs, was fixed at the la- 

 titude of 1 o 27' fouth, and longitude of nS* 

 7' 5" eaft. 



In the courfe of the day of the 29th the cur- 

 rents ceafed to fet us to the weftward, and car- 

 ried us ten miles towards the north. The bight 

 in the lands of New Holland, to the fouthward 

 of Timor, is probably the caufe of this different 

 direction of the currents, which conftantly run 

 from eaft to weft through Endeavour Strait: they 

 foon refumed their direction towards the weft, 

 cauling us to drift from twenty to twenty-four 

 miles a day. 



It is to be remarked, that Captain Cook, after 

 having paffed through Endeavour Strait, had, 

 like us, for four and twenty hours in thefe feas, 

 a difference in his northing, but ftill greater than 

 that which we experienced. 



Since we had on the 30th loft fight of the 

 Ifland of San del Bofe, we met with no land be- 

 fore we reached the coaft of New Holland. The 

 light airs which we experienced made us fear 

 that we fhould arrive there a little too late to 

 complete the furvey of it. 



We probably were not far from fbme rocks 

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