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A VOYAGE TO 
[South Coast. 
1802. The aspect of the shore to the northward was nearly the same 
January. t } iat seen t ] le preceding afternoon, but behind the second reefs it 
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began to assume a more rocky appearance. A high cliffy cape is 
formed a little further eastward, answering to the broad projection 
marked A in the copy I have given of the Dutch chart; it has a 
pyramidal rock near it, and the coast there takes a direction some- 
what on the north side of east. This remarkable projection, being 
within a few leagues of the furthest part of the main coast discovered 
by the Dutch, I have called Cape Nuyts: its latitude is 32 0 2' south, 
and longitude 132 0 18' east. 
After clearing Nuyts' Reefs we steered east-north-east, past 
the cape, to look for anchorage in two bights ; but there were rocks 
in both, and they were open to the southward. Beyond them was 
a low, cliffy point, lying E. 3 0 N. seven or eight miles from Cape 
Nuyts; and seeing a bay behind it which promised shelter from 
south-west and south winds, we hauled round the point at half past 
five. The water shoaled gradually from n to 3 fathoms, on which 
I hove the sails aback and sent the master a-bead to sound ; and 
as he did not make the signal for deeper water, and we were already 
in tolerable shelter, the anchor was dropped in 3^ fathoms, sandy 
bottom, We had then the following bearings : 
Low cliffy point, distant 2 or 3 miles, - S. 35 E. 
Head of the bay, distant i~ mile, - S. 58 W. 
Cliffs, appearing like an island, dist. 4 leagues, N. 77 E. 
Furthest land visible from the mast head, - E. S. E. 
Between the first and the last of these bearings we were exposed to 
the sea, but sheltered at all other points of the compass. 
Being arrived at the extremity of that part of the south coast 
of Terra Australis which had been previously explored, it may be 
useful, before entering on the unknown part, to compare my 
examination of it with what was contained in former charts. It will 
thence appear, that the employment of fifteen days in running along 
