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supplement was taken to the south, and gave the latitude 43° . Flinders 
A steep head which lies N. 79 0 E. four or five miles from the South- 1 
west Cape, then bore S. 74 0 W., three miles;* whence the latitude 
of the Cape should be 4,3° 29', which is 10 less than given by captain 
Furneaux, and 8' by captain Cook. This difference naturally excited 
some suspicion of an error in the observation, and I measured the 
supplement in the same manner on the following noon, when it gave 
2' 40" less than the latitude determined by D'Entrecasteaux in Storm 
Bay. The South-west Cape is therefore placed 2' 40" further south 
than my observation gave it; that is, in latitude 43° gv'.-f The 
longitude of the Cape, from the observations taken off Rocky Point 
and brought forward by the survey, would be 145° 47'; but its 
situation in 146 0 7', by captain Cook, appears to be preferable: 
D'Entrecasteaux places it in 146 0 o'. 
The nearest land, at noon, was a steep head bearing N. 66° E., 
one mile and a half; and between this, and the head which bore 
S. 74 0 W., the shore forms a sandy bay four miles deep, where it is 
probable there may be good anchorage, if two clumps of rock, 
which lie in the entrance, will admit of a passage in. After taking 
* This head opened round the Cape at E. 14° N., magnetic, the sloop's head being 
E. hy N. ; and shut at W. 20° S., when the head was north. In the first case I allow 3£° 
east variation, and in the last, 8°; which makes them agree as nearly as can be expected 
from bearings taken under sail. 
t Captain Furneaux says (in Cook's second Voyage, Vol. I. page 109), that on March 
9, 1773, at noon, the South-west Cape bore north, four leagues; and by referring to 
the Astronomical Observations, p. 193, 1 find that his latitude was 43° 45f, which 
would place the Cape in 43° 33i': nevertheless the captain says it is in 43° 39', and it is 
so laid down in his chart. The observation by which captain Cook appears to have fixed 
the South-west Cape, is that of Jan. 24, 1777 3 at noon; when he says, " our latitude was 
" 43° 47' south" {Third Voyage, VoU I. p. 93). But the Astronomical Observations 
of that voyage shew (p. 101), that the observed latitude on board the Resolution was 
43°42i'- which would make the Cape in 43° 3 2 f south. I consulted captain King s 
journal at the Admiralty, but found no observed latitude marked by him on that day. 
