Port, Bowen.] 
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with lieutenant Fowler to employ the people in getting off pine logs 
and watering the ship ; and early next morning, set offin my whale Sunday 22. 
boat upon an excursion round the port. 
From the ship to the inner part of Cape Clinton the soundings 
were from 5 to 8 fathoms, on a sandy bottom ; but close to the 
innermost point there was no ground at 10 fathoms. From thence 
I steered up the western arm, passing to the south of a central rock 
lying a mile out ; and got with difficulty to the projection named 
West-water Head. The arm terminated a little further on ; but to the 
northward, over the land, I saw a long shallow bay at the back of 
Island Head, and beyond it was the sea. This western arm being 
full of sandy shoals, and of no utility, if at all accessible to ships, I 
observed the latitude and took angles, and then returned to the 
inner part of Cape Clinton. In rowing to the southward, close along 
the inside of the cape, we had from 3 to 9 fathoms water ; but it was 
too late in the evening to make an examination of the southern arm, 
and I therefore ascended a hill near the shore, to inspect it. I his 
was called East-water Hill, and I saw from its top, that the southern 
arm extended S. 16* W. about seven miles, to the foot of the 
hills behind Cape Manifold, where it terminated in shallows and 
mangroves. Close under East-water Hill there was a small 
branch running eastward, nearly insulating Cape Clinton ; but 
neither this branch nor the main arm seemed to be deep enough 
to admit a ship much higher than the cape; and in consequence, I 
gave up the further examination, and returned on board at seven 
o’clock. 
Amongst the useful bearings for the survey, taken at East- 
water Hill, were the following : 
Entrance Island, centre, - - N. 9 0 4,5' E. 
Peaked Islet in the offing, - - S. 58 45 E. 
Cape Manifold, east end of the island, - S. 29 40 E. 
highest of the two peaks, S. 3 20W. 
By means of this last bearing, the longitude of Port Bowen was 
