130 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



two rocks named by the natives Sandy, or Zonda, are of 

 slate ; that named Oscar, by Maxwell, has a very large tree 

 uj)on it, the other only brush wood ; they are separated 

 by a space of about 50 yards. On the north shore, nearly 

 opposite these rocks, is a hanging precipice, to which may 

 be given the name of Lover's Leap, though in a sense dif- 

 ferent from that of Leucadia, this being the place of 

 . execution of the adulterous wives of the king of Bomnia, 

 and their paramours, who are precipitated from the summit 

 into the river. 



The rocks to which Maxwell has given the little appro- 

 priate name of Scylla, lie close to the north shore, and form 

 two masses of slate above water ; about 20 yards beyond 

 them the rippling denotes another mass under water, but 

 on which there is six fathoms depth. 



At seven o'clock the breeze failing, Ave anchored on the 

 east entrance of the creek oft" the Gombac islands, close to 

 the grass, in six fathoms. 



Aug. 7- In the morning, it being calm, I went in the gig 

 through the creek of Gombac, and found, though extreme- 

 ly narrow, that it had a depth of five to ten fathoms. There 

 are but two islands, the separation marked by Maxwell be- 

 tween the two western ones being only a cove; they are 

 mere rocks of slate with a good many trees. From them I 



