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of the Atlas, with particular plans of the entrances to some of them. 
Directions for Port Jackson, and Botany and Broken Bays are given 
by captain Hunter in his voyage ; and they may be found in Hors- 
burgh’s East-India Directory, Part II, p. 465 — 468. Two-fold Bay 
is described in the Introduction to this voyage, and mention made of 
Jervis, Shoal, Glass-house, and Hervey’s Bays. 
A ship sailing along this coast to the southward, should not, 
to have the advantage of the current, come nearer than five or six 
leagues unless to the projecting points ; and if the distance were 
doubled, so as to have the land just in sight, an advantage would be 
found in it; and such an offing obviates the danger of the gales. 
Whilst western winds prevail on the southern parts of the 
East Coast, the south-east trade blows with most regularity within, 
and close to the tropic, producing sea and land breezes near the 
shore, and serenity in the atmosphere ; and the further we go north- 
ward the longer does this fine weather last, till, near Cape It ork, it 
commences with the month of April, probably even March, and 
extends to the middle or end of November. How the winds blow 
from November to April, I have no experience ; but there is great 
reason to believe that they come from the northward, and make the 
wet season here, whilst dry weather prevails beyond the tropic. In 
Broad Sound and Shoal-water Bay we had more northern winds 
than any other, in the month of September ; but these appeared to 
be altogether local, caused by the peculiar formation of the coast; 
for they did not bring any rain, though it was evidently near the 
* end of the dry season, and we found the south-east trade wind be- 
fore losing sight of the land. 
The North Coast appears to have the same winds, with a little 
exception, as the tropical part of the East Coast. From March or 
April to November, the south-east trade prevails; often veering, 
however, to east, and even north-east, and producing fine weather, 
with sea and land breezes near the shore. At the head of the Gulph 
of Carpentaria, the noith-west monsoon began to blow at the end of 
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