Between the Archipelagos.] TERRA AUSTRALIS. 
of a hill two or three miles off. Two teal were shot on the beach, 
whence it seemed probable that some lake or pond of fresh water 
was not far distant ; a sea pie and a gull were also shot, and a few 
small fish caught along-side. These constituted every thing like re- 
freshment obtained here, and the botanists found the scantiness of 
plants equal to that of the other productions ; so that there was no 
inducement to remain longer. 
Fowler's Bay, however, may be useful to a ship in want of a 
place of shelter. It is open only to the three points of the compass 
between south-east-by-south and east-south-east ; and it was evident 
from plants growing close to the water side, that a swell capable 
of injuring a vessel at anchor was seldom, if ever thrown into it. 
The latitude of the east extremity of Point 
Fowler is - - - - 3 2 ° *' soutn 
Longitude of the point, deduced from twenty- 
two sets of distances ( see Table III of the 
Appendix to this volume ) is 1 3a 0 30' ; but 
that given by time keepers with accelerated 
rates and supplemental correction, as ex- 
plained at the end of Chap. VI, and in the 
Appendix, is preferred, and is - 132 27 east 
The variation observed upon the binnacle, with 
the ship'shead east-south-east, was 3 0 11 'west 
by the surveying compass ; and in the offing, 
with the head north-north -east, it was i° 41' 
west. These, corrected, will be 0° 19' and 
o e 30' ; and therefore the variation allowed 
upon the bearings on shore was - o 25 west. 
The wind was at south-east-by-south at one in the afternoon, 
when the anchor was weighed to beat out of the bay. At half past 
five we were three miles from a cliffy head which had been taken for 
an island at the anchorage, and set at N. 77 0 E. The shore forms a 
small bight on the east side of this head, and then stretches south- 
