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APPENDIX. 
T A B L E I. Contmued. 
Route of the Alexander Tranfport, Lieutenant John Shortland, from th 
Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay. 
T 
1 e. 
1788. 
Jan. 7, 
Noon. 
Latitude Longitude 
South. Eall. 
43 4^ 
43 6 
Variation 
Eaft. 
149 2: 
149 II 
43 4^ 
10 
42 
4 
150 
I c 
1 1 
41 
I 
57 
I 2 
39 
16 
4 
13 
38 
^7 
44 
14 
36 
30 
150 
36 
16 
151 55 
Winds, Weather, and Remarks. 
9 24< 
1 1 
1 2 
3^ 
Variable. Frefli breezes, and pleafant 
weather. At 6 P. M. Tafman's 
Head N. W. b. W. 12 or 14' 
leagues. Fluted Head N. W. ' 
W. II or 12 leagues. 
Variable. Moderate breezes, andmifly 
weather, with fmall rain. Great 
numbers of fin filli in light. 
N. Moderate and hazy. At half 
pail; 5 P. M. made the land, which 
1 took for the northernmoft cf Ma- 
ria's Ifles, and the fouthernmoit of 
Schoutin's. Sounded, no ground. 
Variable. Strong gales, and cloudy. 
Ditto. Strong gales, and fqually. A 
very heavy fea running. 
W. N. W. Ditto, ditto. In com- 
pany as before. 
Variable. Moderate breezes, and clear. 
Ditto. Frefh breezes, and clear. 
"N. b. W. Ditto, and fine pleafant 
v/eather. At 10 P. M 
fail and itood ui 
:der 
Ihortened 
iar 
during 
an ealy 
the night. Sounded 
fathom, no ground. At 4 A 
made fail. At 9 made the land, 
noon. Mount Dromedary bore v 
5 or 6 miles, and the northernmofi 
land, which refembled an illand, N. 
b. W. A W. 5 or 6 leagues. 
9c 
M. 
Ai 
W. 
