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round it at E. 7°N., (allowing 4,° east variation,) and a second from Flinders 
.„ - 0 , t i- t an & Bass. 
the nrst, at E. 16 N., their distances asunder being each about five 179&. 
miles. It is the middlemost of these three heads which is called 
South Cape by captain Cook, as appears from the relative situations 
of his Peaked Hill and of Swilly rock ; but he had not the opportu- 
nity of seeing the heads opening one from the other, as we had in 
the Norfolk. I make the latitude of the Cape (adding the 2' 40") to 
be 43 0 37', nearly as captain Furneaux did ; and as captain Cook 
would have done, had his latitude at noon been taken 43 0 ^pi'* 
according to the Astronomical Observations, instead of 42 0 47', as in 
the voyage. 
Pedra Blanca, or Swilly rock, became visible at half past seven, 
when the squalls had mostly blown over ; and the following bearings 
where then taken : 
South Cape, distant five miles, - - W. by N, 
East extreme of the next steep head, dist. a| miles, N. 14 0 E. 
Pedra Blanca, - - - - S. 33 E. 
Distant land through the haze, - - N. 60 E. 
At nine o'clock we hauled up for D'Entrecasteaux's Channel, of 
which I had the sketch of Mr. Hayes, and stood off and on, in the 
entrance, during the night ; the wind blowing hard at west, with 
dark rainy weather. 
Dec. 14, at four in the morning, our situation was far to leeward ; 
and having no prospect of fetching into the channel, we bore away 
for BoreePs Isles, which were seen bearing N. 65 0 E. two leagues. 
Three of these produce some vegetation, and that of the largest had 
been partially burnt not long before. The two easternmost, called the 
Friars by captain Furneaux, are bare pyramidal rocks, and, except 
where they had been made white by the gannets, are of a black, 
weather-beaten colour : a patch of breakers lies one mile to the 
north-east from them. 
Fluted Cape opened round Tasman's Head atN. 18 0 E. We passed 
these steep projections at a mile distance ; and not being able to 
