472 ROCKY CAPE. 



joins the sea a mile and a half on the Tamar side of 

 the east point, which has a remarkable round hill on 

 it : nearly four and five and a half miles to the west- 

 ward of this bay are other small streams. An islet lies 

 at the mouth of the eastern one ; and in its neigh- 

 bourhood only the shore, which falls back a little, is 

 sandy and faced with rocks. The River Inglis is of 

 a good size ; but a reef extends ofi^ the mouth and 

 some distance to the eastward ; it is two miles and a 

 half to the S. S. E. of a headland, called Table Cape, 

 the distances between which. Rocky Cape, Circular 

 Head, and Emu Bay, are equal, namely, eleven miles 

 and a half. Rocky Cape has a high pointed summit, 

 with other peaks in the rear ; a sunken rock is said 

 to lie a mile and a half north of it ; and the coast 

 from thence to Circular Head falls back, forming 

 a bight ; five miles to the south-east of it is a sandy 

 bay with a small rivulet running into it. The 

 Sisters, two round hills, 870 feet high, renders the 

 east point remarkable ; an islet wdth a reef of con- 

 siderable extent fronts it for some distance. 



One of the pilots at Port Dalrymple, I found, had 

 travelled along the west coast of Tasmania, from 

 Macquarie Harbour to Point Woolnorth. He 

 crossed four or five small rivers ; but the country 

 was covered with a low scrub, growing in an im- 

 penetrable network along the surface of the soil, so 

 that he could only make progress by keeping 

 the shore. He was landed from a colonial vessel, 

 by a party of convicts who had taken possession of 

 it, and afterwards succeeded in reaching Valdivia, 



