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of clouds, we occasionally caught glimpses of some 

 high peaks, which I named after my friend Count 

 Strzelecki. A heathy valley stretches across the 

 island to the westward, through which I saw the 

 sea on the opposite side ; on the northern part the 

 hills are more rounded and lower. 



From Babel Islet we proceeded towards Kent 

 Group, passing, in 11 or 12 fathoms, along the 

 eastern shore of Flinders Island, where we discovered 

 a dangerous sandy spit extending five miles off; 

 from its extreme the eastern part of the outer Sister 

 bore N. 64° W., six miles and a half. After 

 rounding the latter the wind changed in a violent 

 squall to the westward, and gave us a long beat of a 

 day to reach Kent Group, during which we dis- 

 covered a reef,* just awash at high water, and bear- 

 ing E. 8° S., five miles and a half from Wright's 

 Rock.t 



This, Endeavour Reef, and a sunken rock, about 

 a mile east of Craggy Island, constitute the chief 

 dangers between Kent Group and Flinders. The 

 extremes are marked to the north and south by 

 Wright's Rock and Craggy Island, between which 

 ships should not pass, although there is a channel 

 close to the south side of the former. It should also 

 be particularly borne in mind that the tides, which 

 here sometimes run two knots, set rather across the 



* Beagle's Reef. 



f A pyramidal lump, three hundred feet liigh, resembling a 

 cutter under sail. 



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