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[South Coast. 
1802. resembling the bernacle goose, and frequenting Furneaux's Islands 
Wry, in fiass , Strait * 
The latitude, observed upon a point of the main 
land on the east side of Lucky Bay, from one 
supplement of the sun's altitude,was SS° 59' 45"? 
but as the supplement of the preceding day 
gave 39" less than the mean of both observa- 
tions, I consider the true latitude to be more 
nearly - - - - 34 o 20 b. 
The longitude from sixteen sets of distances of 
the sun east and west of the moon, of which 
the individual results are given in Table II. of 
the Appendix to this volume, was 122° 15' 
, 1 42" ; but from the two best time keepers, in 
which, from the short period since leaving 
King George's Sound, I put most confidence, 
it will be more correctly - - -122 14 14 E. 
Dip of the south end of the needle, taken 
on shore upon the granite rock, - 66 4 o 
But I am inclined to think it was attracted by the granite ; and 
that, had the needle been considerably elevated, it would not have 
shown more dip than at King George's Sound, where it was 64 0 
The variation deduced from observations taken 
on shore, morning and evening, with three 
compasses placed on the same rock, was 
s° 35' west ; with Walker's meridional com- 
pass, 4° 55'; and with the surveying theodolite 
o° 30' west.-f An amplitude taken on board 
* This goose is described by M. Labillardi&re, page 258 of the London translation, as 
a new species of swan. 
t It is remarkable, that the difference between these three kinds of instruments is 
directly the reverse here of what it was in King George's Sound. 
