6 
A VOYAGE TO 
[ East Coast. 
1802. entering Glass-house Bay I had then hauled close round Cape More- 
Moiiday 26. ton at dusk in the evening, and in coming out had passed too far 
westward to observe it. The longitude of Cape Moreton was now 
fixed by the time keepers at 153 0 26^' east, differing only from 
the lunar observations before taken in the Norfolk ; when its latitude 
had been settled at 27 0 o^' south. 
(Atlas, After passing the dangerous reef, we steered northward until 
Tuesday^ 27. three in the morning ; and then hove to until daylight, for the pur- 
pose of examining the land about Double-island Point and Wide 
Bay, which did not appear to have been well distinguished by cap- 
tain Cook. At'seven o’clock the point bore N. 2 0 W., six leagues, 
and the shore abreast, a beach with sandy hills behind it, was dis- 
tant six miles. Between the S. 6 $° W. and a low bluff head bear- 
ing S. 32 0 W., was a bight in the coast where the sand hills seemed 
to terminate ; for the back land further south was high and rocky 
with small peaks on the top, similar to the ridge behind the Glass 
Houses, of which it is probably a continuation. 
At half past nine we hauled close round Double-island Point, 
within a rock lying between one and two miles to the N. N. E., hav- 
ing 7 fathoms for the least water. The point answered captain 
Cook’s description : it is a steep head, at the extremity of a neck of 
land which runs out two miles from the main, and lies in 2,5° 56' south, 
and 153° 13' east. On the north side of the point the coast falls back 
to the westward, and presents a steep shore of white sand ; but in 
curving round Wide Bay the sandy land becomes very low, and a 
small opening was seen in it, leading to a piece of water like a la- 
goon ; but the shoals which lie off" the entrance render it difficult of 
access, if indeed there be a passage for any thing larger than boats. 
Had the Lady Nelson been with me, I should have attempted to get 
her into the lagoon, having previously entertained a conjecture that 
the head of Hervey’s Bay might communicate with Wide Bay; 
but the apprehension that lieutenant Murray would arrive at the 
