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caused by the current setting westward. So far as the soundings taken isos, 
every hour could ascertain the rise, it was at least two fathoms, and j2 y be [' 
high water took pla cefour or five hours after the moon's passage over 
and under the meridian, and was completed by the three hours tide. 
According to this, it would be high water here, and low water at 
Murray's Islands at the same time, which would present a remarkable 
analogy between this strait and that of Bass to the southwad; this 
however is certain, that the tide set E. by S. one knot and a quarter, 
at Murray’s Islands, at four in the morning ; and that two days 
afterward, at Wednesday Island, it set from one-and-half to two-and- 
half knots W. byS., from one till seven in the morning. I will 
not venture to say that the latter part of- the flood comes from 
south-west at the Prince of Wales' Islands, though appearances 
bespoke it; because captain Cook, who had better opportunity for 
observation, found it setting from the east, in Endeavour’s Strait. 
He also gives the time of high water at one or two hours after 
the moon, which comes nearer to what I observed at Murray’s 
Islands. 
From azimuths with the surveying compass when the head 
was S. E. by E., the variation was 3*32', or corrected to the meridian, 
4 0 5%' east. 
In the morning of Nov. 2, the wind being more moderate and Tuesday 2. 
at E. S. E., we steered between Hammond's Island and the north- 
western reef, with soundings from 6 to 9 fathoms. Another island 
* appeared beyond Hammond’s, to the south-west, which, as it had no 
name, I called Good’s Island, after Mr. Good, the botanical gardener; 
and we hauled up for it, passing a rock and a small reef between 
the two. On seeing an extensive shoal a-head, which would have 
carried us off the land to go round it, we anchored in 7 fathoms, 
dead coral and shells, with the north end of Hammond’s Island bear- 
ing N. 64° E., four or five miles. The botanical gentlemen landed 
on Good’s Island ; and in the afternoon I took these bearings amongst 
others, from a hill near its south-west end. 
