Near Bustard Bay.-] TERRA AUSTRALIS. 
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from 10' east to 7' west ; which must be considered a great degree of 
accuracy, considering the expeditious manner in which he sailed along 
the coast, and that there were no time keepers on board the Endea- 
vour ; but from Sandy Cape northward, where the direction of the 
coast has a good deal of westing in it, greater differences began to 
show themselves. 
There was a little tide running past the ship in the first part 
of the night from N. N. W., which appeared to be the flood setting 
into Hervey’s Bay. At daybreak we pursued our course along the 
shore, at the distance t>f four or five miles, in soundings between 5 
and 9 fathoms. The coast was low, but not sandy ; and behind it 
was a range of hills extending north-westward, and like the flat 
country, was not ill clothed with wood. There was no remarkable 
projection till we came to the south head of Bustard Bay; and the 
night being then at hand, we ran in and anchored on a sandy bottom, 
in 4- fathoms, nearly in the same spot where the Endeavour had 
Iain thirty-two years before. 
The rocky south head of Bustard Bay, from the survey be- 
tween the preceding and following noons, should lie in 24 0 9' south, 
and the time keepers placed it in 15T 52' east; or 5' south and 10' 
east of captain Cook’s situation ; nor did the form of the Bay cor- 
respond to his chart.* The variation observed a few miles from the 
anchorage, was 8° 20' east, with the ship’s head N. W. by N., or 6° 
52' reduced to the meridian ; nearly as had been found in the morn- 
ing, when it was 6° 56' corrected. This is a full degree less than it 
was on the east side of Sandy Cape, and captain Cook’s observations 
show a still greater diminution. 
At daylight we proceeded along the coast; but the wind being 
very light, were no more than abreast of the north head of Bustard 
* Ti e latitude 24° 4' was observed on board the Endeavour, at anchor here ; by whom 
is uncertain, but it was not by captain Cook or Mr. Green. In the Astronomical Obser- 
vations of the voyage, p. 134, Mr. Wales, in deducing the position of Bustard Bay, takes 
no notice of this observation, and omits the latitude. 
1802. 
August. 
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