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A VOYAGE TO 
[South Coast. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Departure from Kanguroo Island. Examination of the main coast, from 
Cape Spencer eastward. The Investigator' s Strait. A new gulph 
discovered. Anchorage at, and examination of the head. Remarks on 
the surrounding land. Return down the Gulph. Troubridge Shoal. 
Torke's Peninsula. Return to Kanguroo Island. Boat expedition to 
Pelican Lagoon. Astronomical observations. Kanguroo Island quitted. 
Back-stairs Passage. The coast from Cape Jervis, eastward. Meeting, 
and communication with Le Geographe. Remarks upon the French 
discoveries on the South Coast. 
]Vf arch 24 in the morning, we got under way from Kanguroo 
Wednes. 24. Island, in order to take up the examination of the main coast at Cape 
Spencer, where it had been quitted in the evening of the 20th, when 
the late gale commenced. The wind had continued to blow fresh 
from the southward ; but had now moderated, and was at south- 
west. We steered north-westward from ten o'clock till six in the 
evening ; and then had sight of land extending from N. 62 0 W. to 
a low part terminating at N. 17°E. distant three leagues. A hum- 
mock upon this low part was named Troubridge Hill, and at first it 
makes like an island. Nothing was visible to the eastward of the low 
land ; whence I judged there to be another inlet or a strait between 
it and Cape Jervis. Soon after dusk the wind veered to south-by- 
east, on which we steered south-westward, and continued the same 
Thurs. 25. course until four in the morning; when the largest Althorpe Isle 
being seen to the north-west, the ship was hove to, with her head 
eastward; and at daylight, before making sail, the following bear- 
ings were taken of the lands to the northward, but no part of Kan- 
guroo Island was visible. 
1802. 
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