APPENDIX. 
XXV 
TABLE VI. .. Continued. 
I Route of the Alexander Tranfport, I^ieutenant John Shortland, fron 
Port Jackfon, New South Wales, to Batavia. 
Time. 
. 1788. 
Aug. 31,^ 
Noon. ^ 
Sept. I 
Latitude 
North. 
10 
I I 
o / 
6 00 
6 10 
5 54 
5 54 
6 
6 
6 
6 
lb 
15 
19 
01 
oS 
18 
Longitude 
6 5< 
6 50 
139 47 
59 
1 38 02 
137 39 
137 26 
136 46 
136 21 
136 05: 
137 44 
136 41 
135 56 
12! 6 38 
13 6 36 
13s 25 
134 39 
134 18 
■/ ariation 
Winds, Weather, and Remarks. 
3 38 
Variable. Light airs, and hot fulti^) 
weather. 
Ditto. Light breezes and hazy. 
Ditto, ditto, ditto, with heavy rain. 
N. E. Light airs, inclining to calm. 
A great quantity of drift wood in 
light. 
Variable. Ditto, with rain. 
Ditto. Squally, with rain. 
Ditto. Light airs and cloudy, with 
heavy rain. 
W. N. V/. Ditto, and clear weather 
E. S. E. Ditto, and hot fultry v. eather. 
(Variable. Light airs, and hot fultry 
weather. 
S. V/. Dark gloomy weather, with 
fqualls. A ftrong current fetting to 
the northward. 
fSoutherly. Light winds. The ex- 
I treme points of the Southernmofl of 
I the New Carolines bore W. ^ S. 
I and N. ' W. diftance off fliore £ve 
{ or fix leagues. Found a current 
fetting rapidly to the V/eflward. 
Variable- Light airs and fqually. 
Ditto. Gentle breezes, inclinable to 
fqualls. 
