s;9 9 .] OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 471 



CHAP. XXL 



THE NORFOLK PROCEEDS ON HER VOYAGE. — DISCOVER PORT DALRYMPLE. 



ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRY WITHIN IT. — NATURAL PRODUCTION. — ANI- 

 MALS SAGACITY AND NUMBERS OF THE BLACK SWAN. — INHABITANTS. 



RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER. PASS TABLE CAPE. PROCEED TO THE 



SOUTHWARD AND WESTWARD. THE NORFOLK PASSES THE STRAIT. 



OBSERVATIONS THEREON. — PROCEEDS TO THE SOUTHWARD. -DE WITT'S 

 ISLES. — ENTER THE DERWENT RIVER. — OBSERVATIONS ON THE DERWENT. 



■ SOME NATIVES SEEN. PARTICULARS OF ONE VENOMOUS SNAKE. — 



COMPARISON BETWELN NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DiEMEN's LAND.—— 

 ARRIVE AT PORT JACKSON. ADVANTAGES OF BASS STRAIT. 



Y EAVING Furneaux's Iftands, the Norfolk proceeded toward the 

 north coaft of Van Diemen's Land ; and on the 4th of Novem- 

 ber they paffed within a mile of a high grafty cape, which is the fea~ 

 ward extremity of a ridge, that, rifing by a gentle afcent, retreats and" 

 joins fome chains of lofty mountains. A fmall rocky ifland lay two 

 miles from it to the W. S. W. At noon the latitude was 40 0 55' 25", 

 and the longitude 147 0 16' 30". 



Early in the afternoon a gap in the land, fituated at the back of a 

 deep narrow bight, which had for fome time attracted attention, be- 

 gan to aflame the appearance of an inlet, which they bore away to 

 examine ; and, after running three miles, found that they had ftiut in 

 the line of the coaft on each fide, and were impelled forward by a 

 ftrong infet of tide ; and when the floop was on the point of enter- 

 ing the harbour, which appeared to be fairly open before her, the 

 water fhoaled fuddenly, {he ft ruck the ground and lay fall:; but for- 

 tunately the ftrong flood in a few minutes dragged her over into 

 deep water, and mot her into the entrance with uncommon velocity. 



Having 



