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Towards Hervey's Bay.] TERRA AUSTRALIS. 
distant four or five miles in the first direction. The Three Brothers isos, 
lie from one to five miles behind the shore, at the eastern extremity Friday 23. 
of a range of high land, coming out of the interior country. The 
northernmost hill is the broadest, most elevated, and nearest to the 
water side ; and being visible fifty miles from a ship’s deck, is an 
excellent landmark for vessels passing along the coast : its latitude 
is 31° 43' south, and longitude 152 0 45' east. 
To the northward of the Three Brothers there is four leagues 
of low, and mostly sandy shore ; and after passing it, we came up 
with a projection, whose top is composed of small, irregular-shaped 
hummocks, the northernmost of them being a rocky lump of a 
sugar-loaf form ; further on, the land falls back into a shallow bight, 
with rocks in it standing above water. When abreast of the projec- 
tion, which was called Tacking Point, the night was closing in, and 
we stood off shore, intending to make the same part next morning ; 
for some of this coast had been passed in the dark by captain Cook, 
and might therefore contain openings. 
At daybreak of the 24th, Tacking Point was distant three miles, Saturday 24. 
and the breeze fresh at S. W. by W. with fine weather. Our little 
consort being out of sight, we stood an hour to the southward ; and 
not seeing her in that direction, bore away along the coast until noon, 
when our situation was as under : 
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Latitude observed - - go 0 58- 
Longitude by time-keepers - - 153 
Northern Brother, dist. 48 miles, bore - S. 23 W, 
Smoky Cape, distant 3 or 4 miles, N. 41 0 to 30 W. 
Northern extreme of the land, - N. 5 W. 
The coast from Tacking Point to Smoky Cape is generally 
low and sandy ; but its uniformity is broken at intervals by rocky 
points, which first appear like islands. Behind them the land is low, 
but quickly rises to hills of a moderate height ; and these being well 
covered with wood, the country had a pleasant appearance. Smoky 
Cape was found to answer the description given of it by captain 
