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A VOYAGE TO [North Coast. 
isos, in the Dutch chart between Groote Eylandt and the main ; but the 
We 7 e 7 6 . l a t itude corresponds with the southernmost. I call it Connexion 
Island; because my survey round Groote Eylandt was connected y 
its means, and made in a great measure independent of the time 
keepers. The centre of Connexion Island, from observations at noon 
to the north and south, lies' in 13 0 5 °1' south ’ and the lon ^ d ^ 
deduced at three o’clock when the extremes bore N. 20° W. to 1 1 E. 
four miles, would be 136° 27' from the best time keeper; but from 
the survey and lunar observations, 136° 24^' east should be more 
correct. 
Our distance from the west side of Groote Eylandt at four 
o’clock, was not quite three miles, and we then bore away south- 
ward along the shore, in 8 to 6 fathoms water. This depth diminished 
gradually to 4 fathoms, and suddenly from that to 2^-; on which we 
steered off into 7, and then resumed our southern course. Soon 
Thurs. 6. 
after sunset, 
Bickerton’s Island, south point, bore 
Connexion I., the west extreme, - • 
Groote Eylandt, north-west extreme, 
central hill, 
a low projection, dist. 4 or 5 miles, 
N. 53 ° W. 
N. 11 W. 
N. 16 E. 
N. 87 E. 
S. 42 E. 
In half an hour, the anchor was dropped in 11 fathoms, muddy 
bottom. 
At the north-west end of Groote Eylandt is a bluff head, the 
termination that way of a range of woody hills from the interior, of 
which the highest is what was set under the name of Central Hill. 
On the west side of the island these hills do not come close to the 
water side, but leave a space of increasing breadth to the southward, 
where the land is low, sandy, and sterile; and even the hills, though 
mostly covered with wood, had little of fertility in their appearance : 
the shore is partly rock, and in part sandy beach. 
We had the wind light and variable in the morning, and pro- 
ceeded to the southward very slowly. The shore trended S. S. E., 
