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the heads for the purpose of visiting the lighthouse 

 just built on Shortland's Bluff.* This I found to 

 be 108 feet high ; the lantern, to contain a fixed 

 light, had not been established. The position of 

 this light being so far within the entrance it is only- 

 visible between S. W. ^ W., and S. J W. ; and a 

 light placed at the extremity of the rocky ledge off 

 Point Nepean would be of infinitely more service in 

 shewing vessels the entrance of the port. 



Whilst we were at Port PhilHp this time, a 

 schooner left in a somewhat mysterious manner, on 

 board of which was the Honourable Mr. Murray, 

 who fell afterwards in a conflict with the pirates at 

 Borneo. The particulars of this gallant affair 

 must be fresh in the recollection of my readers. 



Seat, keeping Point Flinders open south of Lonsdale Point until 

 the last chffy projection is past and bears S. 5 W. Then steer 

 half a point to the left of Arthur's Seat, shutting in Point Flinders 

 with Point Nepean, and keeping Point Lonsdale a little open of 

 the latter. The buoy at the eastern entrance will now soon be 

 made out, and should be kept in line with Arthur's Seat. Pass 

 on the north side of the buoy and then haul up S. E. until the 

 water shoals to five fathoms, or until Whale Head bears S. W. by 

 W. ; then steer N. E. by E for Mount Martha,'^the next hill north 

 of Arthur's Seat, until the latter bears S. E., when a course may 

 be shaped for Hobson's Bay. 



* The patch of dark bushes, breaking the sand beach to the 

 northward, and forming one of the leading marks in, had 

 been so thinned that it was very indistinct. Mr. LaTrobe, how- 

 ever, was going to remedy this evil by erecting a beacon on that 

 spot. 



