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nevertheless, besides pines, there are trees, principally eucalyptus, of 1802. 
moderate size, and the vallies of Cape Clinton are overspread with a Monday *23. 
tolerably good grass. No inhabitants were seen, but in every part where 
Handed, fires had been made, and the woods of Cape Clinton were then 
burning ; the natives had also been upon Entrance Island, which im- 
plied them to have canoes, although none were seen. There are kan- 
garoos in the woods ; hawks, and the bald-headed mocking bird of 
Port Jackson are common ; and ducks, sea-pies, and gulls frequent 
the shoals at low water. Fish were more abundant here than in any 
port before visited ; those taken in the seine at the watering beach 
were principally mullet, but sharks and flying fish were numerous. 
The latitude of the north-west end of Entrance 
Island from an observation taken by lieu- 
tenant Flinders in an artificial horizon, is 22* s8' 28" south 
Longitude from twelve sets of lunar distances 
by the same officer, 1,50° 47' ^4," ; and by 
the time keepers, 1 50° 45' 38" ; but from the 
fifty sets which fix Broad Sound, and the 
reduction from thence by survey, the more 
correct situaton will be - - 150 45 o east 
Dip of the south end of the needle, - 50 20 
Variation from azimuths with the tneodolite, 7 40 east; 
but on the top of the island, where my bearings were taken, the 
variation appeared to be 8° 30' east ; and 8° in other parts of the port. 
The time of high water, as near as it could be ascertained, 
was ten hours after the moon’s passage over and under the meridian, 
being half an hour later than in Keppel Bay ; and the tide rises more 
than nine feet, but how much was not known ; it is however to be 
presumed, from what was observed to the south and to the north of 
Port Bowen, that the spring tides do not rise less than fifteen feet. 
At daylight of the 24th, we steered out of Port Bowen by the Tuesday 24. 
northern passage, as we had gone in. The wind was from the west- 
ward ; but so light, that when the ebb tide made from the north-west 
at ten o’clock, it was necessary to drop the kedge anchor for a time. 
