194 A VOYAGE TO [South Coast, 
CHAPTER IX. 
Examination of the coast resumed. Encounter Bay. The capes Ber- 
nouilli and Jaffa. Baudin's Rocks. Differences in the bearings on 
tacking. Cape Buffon, the eastern limit of the French discovery. The 
capes Northumberland and Bridge-water of captain Grant. Danger 
from a south-west gale. King's Island, in Bass' Strait : anchorage 
there. Some account of the island. Nautical observations. New 
Tear's Isles. Cape Otway, and the north-west entrance to Bass' Strait. 
Anchorage in, and examination of Port Phillip. The country and 
inhabitants. Nautical observations. 
1802. I Returned with Mr. Brown on board the Investigator at half past 
April. eie:ht in the morning, and we then separated from Le Geoarraphe ; 
Friday 9. ° »' r , 
captain Baudin's course being directed to the north-west, and ours 
to the southward. We had lost ground during the night, and the wind 
was very feeble at east, so that the French ship was in sight at noon, 
and our situation was as follows : 
Latitude observed, - 35° 44/ 
Longitude by time keepers, - - 138 53 
Cape Jervis bore N. &2jW. 
Hummock at the east end of the high land, N. 4- E. 
Nearest sandy hillock, dist. 3 or 4 leagues, N. 65 E. 
At the place where we tacked from the shore on the morning 
of the 8th, the high land of Cape Jervis had retreated from the 
water side, the coast was become low and sandy, and its trending 
was north-east; but after running four or five leagues in that 
direction, it curved round to the south-eastward, and thus formed a 
large bight or bay. The head of this bay was probably seen by 
