222 A VOYAGE TO [South Coast. 
. 180 2. At noon, Cape Schanck bore N. g6° W. five or six miles ; the 
Monday 3. "breeze was fresh from the westward, with cloudy weather, and we 
steered for Point Grant, at the east side of the entrance into Western 
Port. There is a square-topped rock surrounded with a reef lying 
off" the point ; but the Lady Nelson has passed between them, with 
3 fathoms water. On reaching within a mile of this reef, at one 
o'clock, I set 
C. Schanck, distant 9 or 10 miles, at - N. 85 0 W. 
A cliffy head up the entrance, distant 5 miles, N. 16 W. 
Square-topped rock, - - - - N. 85 E. 
Cape Wollamai, - - - - - S. 8o|-E. 
We then steered eastward along the south side of Phillip Island, 
and passed a needle-like rock, lying under the shore. Cape Wolla- 
mai is the east end of the island, and forms one side of the small, 
eastern entrance to the port; and at three o'clock, when it bore N. 
14,° E, five or six miles, its longitude was ascertained by means of 
the time keepers to be 1 45° 25' east : the latitude deduced from 
" bearings, is 38° 33' south. Wollamai is the native name for a fish at 
Port Jackson, called sometimes by the settlers, light-horseman, from 
the bones of the head having some resemblance to a helmet ; and 
the form of this cape bearing a likeness to the head of the fish, 
induced Mr. Bass to give it the name of Wollamai. 
We ran south-eastward along the shore, at the rate of six or 
seven knots, until sunset; when a steep head, supposed to be the 
Cape Liptrap of Captain Grant, was seen through the haze, and our 
bearings of the land were, 
Cape Wollamai, distant six leagues, - N. 49 0 W. 
A low projection, distant seven miles, - N. 21 E. 
Cape Liptrap, - - - - S. 50 E. 
We soon afterwards hauled to the wind off shore, under treble- 
reefed top sails ; and the gale increasing, with much swell from the 
south-westward, the close reefs were taken in. At midnight, tacked 
Tuesday 4. to the northward, and stood off and on till day break ; the wind 
