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measurement only five seconds. The longitude, 

 therefore, of Batman's Hill, 6' 16' 17" W. of 

 Sydney, or (approximately) 144° 59' 43" E. of 

 Greenwich, may be relied on. 



A great improvement had been made since our 

 last visit in the approach to the anchorage, by the 

 erection of a light on Point Gellibrand.* This we 

 found to be a small lamp fixed at the top of a 

 kind of wooden frame- work, thirty feet high, sug- 

 gested by the superintendent, Mr. LaTrobe ; and 

 for a temporary economical aifair, until a more 

 expensive light can be afforded, it is certainly a 

 clever contrivance. 



The last three years had also made great additions 

 to the buildings of William Town ; but Melbourne 

 had so increased that we hardly knew it again. 

 Wharfs and stores fronted the banks of the 

 Yarra-yarra ; whilst further down, tanners and 

 soap-boilers had established themselves on either 

 side, where, formerly, had been tea-tree thickets, 

 from which the cheerful pipe of the bell-bird greeted 

 the visitor. Very different, however, were now the 

 sights, and sounds, and smells, that assailed our 



* This light may be seen from a ship's deck, in clear weather, 

 seven miles off. Vessels intending to anchor in Hobson's Bay- 

 should keep the light bearing N. W. by N. until the water 

 shoals to 6 fathoms; then steer N by W. When the lights of 

 William Town open out, bearing S. W. by W., haul in W. S. W. 

 for the anchorage. The best berth is in 3^ fathoms, with the 

 Ught bearing S. A E. and the jetty at William Town S. W. h W. 



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