CHAPTER XIV. 



AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND. 



SAIL FROM TASMANIA THE S. W. CAPE — MONUMENT TO 



FLINDERS — ROTTENEST ISLAND — LIGHTHOTJSE — PENAL 

 ESTABLISHMENT — LONGITUDE OF FREMANTLE — FINAL 

 DEPARTURE FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA — RODRIGUE ISLAND 

 — EFFECTS OF A HURRICANE AT MAURITIUS — THE CREW 

 AND PASSENGERS OF A FOUNDERED VESSEL SAVED— BOUR- 

 BON — MADAGASCAR — SIMOn's BAY DEEP SEA SOUNDINGS 



ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND — TAKE LEAVE OF THE BEAGLE — 



THE SURVEYING SERVICE. , 



The barometer, which had been rising gradually 

 within the last three days, now standing at 30.20, 

 shewed that the opportunity of getting round the 

 S. W. Cape, had at length arrived. We therefore left 

 Sullivan Cove on the morning of the 15th ; and by 

 the following midnight passed the above-mentioned 

 storm-beaten head-land with a fine northerly wind. 

 Previous, however, to so doing, we had soundings 

 in 84 fathoms, six miles S. W. of the Mew Stone. 

 From the result of others we had obtained at dif- 

 ferent times off the south coast of Tasmania, it 

 appears that soundings of a moderate depth extend 

 out only a short distance, and that a ship in 

 60 fathoms will be within ten miles of the land. 



It had been my intention, on our passage to the 

 westward, to have examined the south and west 

 sides of Kangaroo Island, with the rocks lying off 

 the former. I was also anxious to visit South Aus- 

 tralia for another meridian distance, those already 



