162 A VOYAGE TO [South Coast. 
ifios. the gulph. Barn Hill lies at the back of this ridge and about twelve 
March, , '. ;• 
Sunday 14. miles from the water ; and towards the southern end of the ridge was 
another hill, also some distance inland, of which I shall have occa- 
sion to speak hereafter. A middle mount on the west side of the 
gulph, higher and further back than the one before set, was in sight 
from this anchorage ; and the bearings taken were these : 
Middle back mount, - - N. 6V W. 
Barn Hill on the east side, - S. 7 [, E. 
A more southern hill, - - S. 38 E. 
Mount Brown was no longer visible ; but it had been seen this 
afternoon at the distance of fifty-eight miles, and was sufficiently 
above the horizon to have been distinguished some miles further 
from a ship's deck in a perfectly clear day. 
Monday is. On the morning of the 15th, the wind had shifted to south- 
east; and the great bank then trending south-westward, we fol- 
lowed it with variable soundings between 3 and 10 fathoms. At ten 
o'clock the water had deepened to 15; and being then nearer to 
the west than to the east side of the gulph, and the wind having 
come more a-head, we tacked to the east-south-east ; but in fifty 
minutes were obliged to steer westward again, having fallen into 
3 fathoms on the edge of the bank. This is the narrowest part of 
the Gulph below Point Lowly, the two shores being scarcely more 
than twenty miles asunder ; and of this space, the great eastern 
bank, if the part where we last had 3 fathoms be connected with it, 
occupies about eleven, and the shallow water of the west side one or 
two miles. The soundings we had in stretching westward across the 
deep channel, were, from the shoal 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 12, 12, io, 9, 
8, 7, 6, 7, 6, 5 fathoms, at nearly equal distances asunder, and the last 
at six miles from the western land. 
After sounding across the channel, we stood back, lying up 
south-east, and reached within five miles of the eastern shore, where 
the anchor was dropped in 4 a fathoms ; Barn Hill bearing N. E., 
and a cliffy projection, named Point Riley after the gentleman of that 
