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A VOYAGE TO 
[South Coast. 
CHAPTER V. 
Fowler's Bay. Departure from thence. Arrival at the Isles of St, 
Francis. Correspondence between the winds and the marine barometer. 
Examination of the other parts of Nuyts' Archipelago, and of the main 
coast. The Isles of St. Peter. Return to St. Francis. General 
remarks on 'Nuyts' Archipelago. Identification of the islands in the 
Dutch chart. 
1802. 1 he bay in which we anchored on the evening of January 28, at 
Thurso's. tne extremity of the before known south coast of Terra Australis, 
(Atlas, was named Fowler's Bay, after my first lieutenant ; and the low, 
Plate I cliffy point which shelters it from southern winds and, not impro- 
bably, is the furthest point (marked B) in the Dutch chart, was 
called Point Fowler. The botanical gentlemen landed early on the 
Friday 29. following morning to examine the productions of the country, and I 
went on shore to take observations and bearings, and to search for 
fresh water. 
The cliffs and rocks of Point Fowler are calcareous, and con- 
nected with the main land by a low, sandy isthmus of half a mile 
broad. Many traces of inhabitants were found, and amongst others, 
some decayed spears ; but no huts were seen, nor any thing to indi- 
cate that men had been here lately. Upon the beach were the foot 
marks of dogs, and some of the emu or cassowary. I found in a 
hole of the low cliffs one of those large nests which have before 
been mentioned, but it contained nothing, and had been long aban- 
doned. 
No fresh water was discovered round the shores of the bay, 
nor was there any wood large enough for fuel, nearer than the brow 
