APPENDIX, 
TABLE L 
Continued. 
R.oute of the Alexander Tranfport, Lieutenant John Shortland, from the 
Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay. 
Time. 
1788. 
Jan. 16, 
Noon 
Latitude 
South. 
36 19 
Longitude 
Ealh 
:49 5' 
36 27 150 34 
18 35 32 
150 34 
19 34 0C150 47 
Variation 
Eaft. 
Winds, V/eather, and Remarks. 
Variable. Light breezes, and clear 
Sounded in 2 5 iathoms, fmall pebbles , 
Variable. A s-entle breeze, and hot 
fultry weather, with frequent fqualls, 
and thunder, lightning, and rain. A 
current fettins^ to the fouthward. 
o 
The Frienddiip and Scarborough in 
company. 
Light breezes, and cloudy. 
-S. b. E. 
Found a current fetting 30 miie; 
thefe 24 hours to the fouthward. 
S. S. W. to S. E. Fleafant gales ar 
fair weather. At 6 P. M. made the 
land about Long Nofe, bearing W 
N. W. 5 or 6 leagues, hauled up 
N. b. E. for the nio-ht. At day 
light made fail. At 5, clofe to the 
white cliffs to the fouthward of Bo- 
tany Bay. At half paft ten, brought 
up in the Bay, in 7 fathom water, 
the N. point S. E. b. E. and the S. 
point S. S. E. diftant 2 or q miles 
N. B. Latitude obferved while laying in Port Jackfon, 33" 52^ fouth j longitude^. 
151° 16' eaftj mean of the thermometer 75°. 
