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Keppel Bay, and cutting off Cape Capricorn with a piece of land isoa. 
twenty-five miles in length, from the continent. - Friday is. 
I landed on the eastern shore, nearly opposite to the reddish 
cliffs which had been my uppermost station from Port Curtis, and set 
Broad Mount in Keppel Bay at - - N. 6 o° 45' W. 
Mount Larcom, - - - S. 16 15 W. 
Having found one communication, we rowed up the western branch 
near the reddish cliffs, hoping to get back to Keppel Bay by a se- 
cond new passage ; but after going two miles, with a diminishing 
depth from 4 fathoms to three feet, we were stopped by mangroves, 
and obliged to return to the main stream. 
The tide was half ebbed when we came to the shallowest part 
of the communicating channel ; and it was with much difficulty that 
the boat could be got over. A space here of about two miles in 
length, appears to be dry, or very nearly so, at low water ; but it is 
possible that some small channel may exist amongst the mangroves, 
of sufficient depth for a boat to pass at all times of tide. 
We reached the entrance of the eastern arm from Keppel Bay, 
with the last of the ebb ; and took the flood to go up the southern 
branch. The depth of water was generally 3 fathoms, on the 
eastern side, and the width nearly half a mile. This continued three 
miles up, when a division took place ; in the smallest, which ran 
southward, we got one mile, and up the other, leading south-west- 
ward, two miles ; when both were found to terminate in shallows 
amongst the mangroves. It was then dusk ; and there being no 
possibility of landing, the boat was made fast to a mangrove bush till 
high water, andnvith the returning ebb, we got on board the ship 
at eleven o’clock. 
The Lady Nelson had returned from the hummocky island, 
without taking any turtle. No good anchorage was found, npr was 
there either wood or water upon the island, worth the attention of 
a ship. Mr. Murray ascended the highest of the hummocks with a 
compass, but did not see any lands in the offing further out than the 
Keppel Isles. 
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