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in 3 fathoms water with the wind blowing strong into the sound. 
By means of a warp to the brig, the best bower was shifted into 4 
fathoms; and when I got on board, the stream and small bower an- 
chors had just been recovered. The weather tide made at nine in the 
evening, and we ran into 7 fathoms in the channel ; and at daylight 
stood out of the sound, with the brig in company, having then a 
moderate breeze at south-east. 
Of Thirsty Sound as a harbour, very little can be said in praise ; 
the north-east and east winds throw in a good deal of sea, and there 
is not room for more than three or four ships, without running up 
into the narrow part ; and what the depth may be there I did not 
examine, but saw that there were shoals. The entrance of the sound 
may be known by two round hills, one on each side, lying nearly 
north and south, one mile and a half from each other : the north- 
ernmost is Pier Head. The surrounding country is clothed with 
grass and wood ; but on the Long-Island side the grass is coarse, 
the trees are thinly scattered, and the soil is every where too stony 
for the cultivation of grain. 
There were many traces of natives, though none recent. 
Judging from what was seen round the fire places, turtle would seem 
to be their principal food ; and indeed several turtle were seen in 
the water, but we had not dexterity enough to take any of them. In 
fishing with the seine, at a small beach two miles up the sound, we 
always had tolerably good success ; but no fresh water accessible to 
boats could be found in the neighbourhood. 
The latitude of Pier Head, from an observa- 
tion made at the top in an artificial hori- 
zon, is - - 22° 6' 53" S. 
Lojigitude from thirteen sets of distances of 
the sun west of the moon, observed by 
lieutenant Flinders, 149 0 47' 50" ; but by the 
survey and the fixed position in Broad 
Sound, with which the time-keepers agreed, 
it will be more correctly - - - 150 o 10 E. 
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1802. 
September. 
Tuesday 7. 
VOL. II. 
