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A VOYAGE TO 
[ North Coast. 
February marked at all, it is as main land, and without distinctive appella- 
Satui day 19. tion ; I have therefore applied names to each, mostly after gentlemen 
in the East-India directory ; and in compliment to that respectable 
body of men, whose liberal attention to this voyage was useful to 
us and honourable to them, the whole cluster is named the English 
Company’s Islands. * 
Amongst the bearings taken from the south-eastern cliff of 
Cotton’s Island, the following were most essential to the survey. 
Ship at anchor, distant i~ miles, - S. 4i°5o' W. 
Mount Bonner, 
Mount Saunders, north end, 
Cape Wilberforee, N. W. cliff, 
Bromby’s Isles, the largest, 
Wigram’s Island, 
Moved S. 52i° W. one-third mile. 
Furthest part of the main land, 
Inglis’ Island, N. E. cliff, 
Bosanquet’s I., N. W. extreme 
S. 21 12 E. 
S. 47 52 E. 
N. 74 15 E. 
N. 66*39' to 6g 39 E. 
N. 41 45 to 15 40 E. 
5 W. 
S.-4 9 
S. 53 30 w. 
S. % 5 W. 
The Dutch chart contains an island of great extent, lying off 
this part of the North Coast ; it has no name in Thevenot, but in 
some authors bears that of Wessel’s or Wezel’s Eylandt, probably 
from the vessel which discovered Arnhem’s Land in 1 636 ; and from 
the south end of Cotton’s Island distant land was seen to the N. W. 
which I judged to be a part of it; but no bearings could be taken 
at this time, from the heavy clouds and rain by which it was 
obscured. 
from the 19th to the 22d, the weather was frequently rainy, 
with thunder and lightning ; and the wind blew strong in squalls, 
generally between the north and west, and made it unsafe to move 
the ship. During these days, the botanical gentlemen over-ran the 
two islands which form Malay Road ; and I made a boat excursion 
to Astell’s, and another to the north end of Cotton’s Island, to sound 
Tuesday 32. and take bearings for the survey. In the latter excursion, three black 
