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A VOYAGE TO 
[East Coast. 
1802. 
July. 
Thuis. 22. 
(Atlas, 
Plate VIII.) 
PI. XVIIT, 
View 2.) 
Friday 23. 
(Atlas, 
Plate IX.) 
to have been found by the south-sea whalers, between Sandy Cape 
and Break-sea Spit. In the morning of July 22, we sailed out of 
Port Jackson together ; and the breeze being fair and fresh, ran 
rapidly to the northward, keeping at a little distance from the coast. 
At eleven o’clock, the south head of Broken Bay bore W. by 
N. three leagues ; and Mr. Westall then made a sketch of the 
entrance, with that of the Hawkesbury River, which falls into it. 
The colonists have called this place Broken Bay, but it is not what 
was so named by captain Cook ; for he says it lies in latitude 33 0 42' 
( Ha wkes worth III. 103), whereas the southernmost point of entrance 
is not further than 33 0 34' south. There is, in captain Cook’s latitude, 
a very small opening, and the hills behind it answer to his description 
of “ some broken land that seemed to form a bay,” when seen at 
four leagues, the distance he was off; but in reality, there is nothing 
more than a shallow lagoon in that place. In consequence of this 
difference in position, Cape Three-points has been sought three or 
four leagues to the north of Broken Bay ; whereas it is the north 
head of the entrance into the bay itself which was so named, and it 
corresponds both in situation and appearance. 
At noon, the south-eastern bluff' of Cape Three-points bore S. 
64° W., seven or eight miles, and was found to lie in 33 0 32^-' south 
and 151 0 23V east. In steering northward along the coast, at from 
six to two miles distance, we passed two rocky islets lying under 
the high shore ; and at sunset, Coal Island, in the entrance of Port 
Hunter, bore N. 9 0 W.,five or six miles. This port was discovered 
in 1797 by the late captain John Shortland, and lies in 32 0 36' south, 
longitude 151 0 43' east. 
We passed Port Stephens a little before midnight ; and the 
breeze being fresh at W. by S., the Lady Nelson was left astern; 
and we lay to for an hour next morning, to wait her coming up. 
The land was then scarcely visible, but a north course brought us in 
with the Three Brothers ; and at four in the afternoon, they bore 
from S. 56° to 65° W., the nearest land being a low, but steep point, 
