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being strong at west, and weather squally with rain. We then bore isos. 
away for the land, which was seen to leeward ; and at seven, the Tues day 4. 
bearings of the principal parts were as under : 
Land indistinct, apparently C. Liptrap, - N. 5° W. 
Wilson's Promontory, south extreme, - S. 85 E. 
A peaked I. (Rodondo of captain Grant), - S. 71 E. 
Besides Rodondo, which lies about six miles to the south-by- 
east of the promontory, I distinguished five or six less conspicuous 
isles, lying along the south and west sides of this remarkable head 
land': these are called Glennie's Isles. To the N. 88° E. from 
Rodondo, and distant about two leagues, was a small island which 
appears to have been one of Mon cur's Isles ; and in steering south- 
eastward, we got sight of the Devil's Tower, and of the high island 
and rocks named Sir Roger Curtis' Isles. These names were given 
by captain Grant in 1800 ; but he was not the discoverer of the 
•places to which they are applied. They are all laid down upon my 
chart of 1799, on the authority of Mr. Bass; and when it is con- 
sidered that this enterprising man saw them from an open boat, in 
very bad weather, their relative positions to Wilson's Promontory 
will be thought surprisingly near the truth. Unfortunately the 
situation of the promontory itself, owing to some injury done to his 
quadrant, is considerably in error ; being twelve or fourteen miles 
wrong in latitude. A reef is mentioned by captain Grant, as lying 
to the southward between Rodondo and Moncur's Isles; and a rock, 
level with the water, was seen in the same situation by the ships 
Cato and Castle of Good Hope, from which last it received the 
appropriate name of Crocodile Rock. This also was seen by Mr. 
Bass, and laid down in its relative situation ; but in the Investigator, 
I was not sufficiently near to get sight of this important danger. 
We continued to steer south-eastward, round all these islands, 
having a fresh gale at west-south-west with squally weather ; and 
at noon our situation was in 
