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A VOYAGE TO 
[South Coast. 
1S02. but was absolutely necessary to obtaining that accuracy of which I 
January. desirous ; and now, on recommencing the survey from King 
George's Sound to the eastward, I persevered in the same system ; 
and it was adhered to, although not particularly mentioned, in all 
the succeeding part of the voyage. 
Tuesday 5. On the 5th of January, in the morning, we got under way 
(Atlas, f rom tne Sound, having a fresh wind from the westward and squally 
Plate II.) ' & ... 
weather. I steered between Michaelmas Island and the main, in 
order to explore better that part of the Sound, and ascertain the ex- 
tent of a shoal running off* from the north-west end of the island. 
It was found to run out not further than half a mile, at which distance 
we passed in 5 fathoms water ; and at noon, when the east end 
of Break-sea Island bore S. 30 0 W., we had 33 fathoms. 
Mount Gardner is a high, conic-shaped hill, apparently of 
granite, very well, delineated in captain Vancouver's atlas. It 
stands upon a projecting cape, round which the shore falls back to 
the northward, forming a sandy bight where there appeared to be 
shelter from western winds ; indeed, as the coast line was not dis- 
tinctly seen round the south-west corner of the bight, it is possible 
there may be some small inlet in that part. 
The south end of an island, called He Pelee (Bald Island) by 
D'Entrecasteaux, opened round the cape of Mount Gardner at 
N. 6g° E. The French navigator having passed without side of this 
island, I steered within, through a passage of a short mile wide ; 
and had 17 fathoms for the shoalest water, on a sandy bottom. Bald 
Island is of moderate elevation, and barren, as its name implies; it 
is about two-and-half miles in length, and the south end lies in 
34° 55' south, and 118 0 29' east. It lies off a rocky projection of 
the main land, at which terminates a ridge of mountain extending 
three leagues along the shore from the bight behind Mount Gardner. 
There are a number of small peaks upon the top of this ridge, which 
induced me to give it the name Mount Manypeak. 
After clearing the passage of Bald Island, I found the shore 
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