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A VOYAGE TO 
[South Coast, 
1802. from it. With respect to the inner islands and the main coast, it 
anuary. w&g necessar jiy defective, from the French ships having sailed round 
the archipelago, and not through the middle of it as I did in the 
Investigator. Here, my survey, though far from complete in the 
details, will afford much new information ; and useful also, since it has 
brought to light a well sheltered cove affording wood and water, 
and two other tolerable anchorages at which some refreshments may 
be procured, and at one, quantities of salt in the summer season. 
(Atlas, From the archipelago eastward, the examination of the coast 
late III.) was prosecuted by D'Entrecasteaux with much care, and with some 
trifling exceptions, very closely ; but as far as the 127th degree of 
longitude from Greenwich, no soundings were given. These have 
been supplied, and a more minute description given of the coast. At 
the 1 29th degree, the French ships seem to have been closer in with 
the land than was the Investigator; and it would appear by the 
track that they were also closer at the 130th, and at the head of the 
Great Bight, but these last are not corroborated by the soundings. 
From thence to the bay in which we anchored on the 28th, the 
Dutch chart of 1627 was the sole authority; and making allowances 
for the state of navigation at that time, it is as correct m form as 
could reasonably have been expected. 
The latitudes and longitudes of the points and islands along 
the coast have been either verified or corrected, for there are com- 
monly some differences between my longitudes and those of Van- 
couver and D'Entrecasteaux. The observations by which certain 
places, taken as fixed points, are settled in longitude, are mentioned 
at those places, as also are the corrections applied to the time keepers 
for laying down the intermediate parts ; and both are more particu- 
larly specified in the Appendix to this volume. 
Monsieur Beautemps Beaupre, geographical engineer on board 
La Recherche, was the constructor of the French charts ; and they 
must be allowed to do him great credit. Perhaps no chart of a 
£oast so little known as this was, will bear a comparison with its 
