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A VOYAGE TO 
[ North Coast. 
The ship, distant l-f miles, - N. 58° o'W. 
Wallis’ Isles, over the Shoal Cape of Bligh, - S. 23 5 W. 
Booby Isle, centre, - - - S. 80 o W. 
Northern isles, the westernmost visible, N. 28° 10' to 24 5 W. 
Hawkesbury Island, - - N. 9 15 to 4 o W. 
North-west reef, its apparent termination, - N. 38 50 W. 
The shoal which stopped our progress did not run off from 
Shoal Cape, as captain Bligh had supposed, but from a smaller and 
nearer island, two miles from my station. Within the large island, 
of which Shoal Cape forms the north-western point, I saw water like 
an inclosed port, probably the Wolf’s Bay of captain Edwards; and 
it seemed possible that the land may be there divided ; but the best 
information I can give of the forms and extent of all these islands, 
will be seen in the particular chart. 
It was now ascertained, that the figures resembling sentry 
boxes were ant hills, of eight or more feet high ; Pelsert found 
similar hills on the West Coast, and says they might have been 
taken for the houses of Indians, as in fact we did take them at a 
distant view. They were also seen by Dampier on the North west 
Coast, who mistook them in the same way; but says he found them 
to be so many rocks, probably from not making the examination 
with his usual care. The insects which inhabit, and I suppose erect 
these structures, are small, reddish, with black heads, and seemed to 
be a sluggish and feeble race. We found the common black flies 
excessively numerous here; and almost as troublesome as Dampier 
describes them to be on the North-west Coast. 
Good’s Island is between one and two miles long, and resembles 
the rest of the cluster ip being hilly, woody, and rocky, with small 
beaches on the leeward side. The stone is granitic and brittle ; but 
there is also porphyry, and in one place I found streaks of verde- 
grease, as if the cliffs above had contained copper ore. A log of 
wood, resembling the cedar of Port Jackson, was thrown up on the 
beach, but none of the trees were seen ; those scattered over the 
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November. 
Tuesday 2. 
