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Archip. of the Recherche .] TERRA AUSTRALIS. 
improve my former survey. We steered along the coast at the dis- 
tance of seven or eight leagues, with a fresh breeze and a strong 
current in our favour; and on the next day at noon I set land, which 
had the appearance of Bald Head, at N. 31 0 W., distant about five 
leagues. Mount Gardner and Bald Island were distinguished in the 
afternoon ; but the land was visible at times only, from the haziness 
of the weather. 
My intention in coming so near the South Coast, was to skirt 
along the outer parts of the Archipelago of the Recherche, which had 
before been seen imperfectly ; and to stop a day or two in Goose- 
Island Bay, for the purposes of procuring geese for our sick people, 
seal oil for our lamps, and a few casks of salt from the lake on 
Middle Island. It was night when we approached the archipelago, Monday is, 
and I therefore steered to make Termination Island, which is the 
outermost part; at four in the morning of the 17th, it was seen about Tuesday 17. 
two leagues to the N. E., and we had 6 2 fathoms on a bottom of 
white sand. Mondrain Island was set at daylight, and the positions 
of many other places were either verified or corrected, during the 
run to noon; at that time we had 45 fathoms, and a reef was seen 
which may probably be that marked Vigie, in the French chart, and 
is the more dangerous from the sea breaking upon it only at times. 
No observation was obtained for the latitude, but it should be 34,® 13' 
south, from the following bearings then taken. 
Western Twin, - 
N. 
5° 
W. 
A nearer isle, surrounded with breakers, - 
N. 
3 
E. 
Cape Arid, top of the mount on it. 
N.’ 
53 
E. 
Middle I., highest top of the mount, 
N. 
661 
: E. 
Douglas’s Isles, two appearing in one, 
N. 
80 
E. 
High breakers, distant 6 miles, 
S. 
42 
E. 
At one o’clock, in steering for Douglas’s Isles, a single breaker 
was seen right a-head of the ship, lying six miles N. E. ~ N. of the 
former dangerous reef, and about eight from the isles, in a 
W. by S. i S. direction. We passed to the northward of it, having 
voL. 11. M ra 
1803. 
May. 
Sunday li. 
