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with them, there being no wallabies to offer mo- 

 lestation. 



We were not sorry to find ourselves one fine 

 morning turning our backs on the scene of one of 

 the Beagle's many narrow escapes ; so favourable 

 did the weather continue, that, although in the first 

 week in June, we were able to pass both the follow- 

 ing nights at anchor in the middle of the strait ;* on 

 the first occasion between the Devil's Tower and 



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Devil's Tower, 330 feit liigli, West, two miles. 



Curtis's Island ;t and on the second, five miles to the 

 southward of Hogan Group. 



I landed on the largest island ;:j: which I found to 

 be a mile and a half in extent, inhabited by a 



* I gladly seized these opportunities of ascertaining exactly 

 the set of the tides. At the first anchorage they ran E.N.E. and 

 S.E. only from half to a quarter of a knot, the latter beginning 

 half an hour before low water at Kent Group ; at the second, 

 the tide set N.E, by E., one knot, and S.S.W. a knot and a 

 half; the southerly stream began one hour and a half after low* 

 water at Kent Group : on both occasions there was a light 

 westerly wind. 



f The central position of this island renders it quite a finger- 

 post for ships passing through the Strait. It has at the south 

 end a square summit 1060 feet high, in lat. 39° 28' 20" S., 

 and long. 4" 33' 45" West of Sydney ; towards the north it 

 slopes away something in the shape of a shoe, from which it 

 is called by the sealers " The Slipper." Two sugar-loaf rocks, 

 each 350 feet high, lie two miles and a half off its southern end. 



X The highest point I found to be in lat. 39° 13' 04" S., and 

 long. 4° 13' 15" west of Sydney ; and 430 feet high. 



