A VOYAGE TO 
[ Torres' Strait • 
prefer Torres’ Strait, were it only on this account ; considering the 
long continuance of the danger in one case, as being more than a 
counterbalance to the superior degree of it in the other. 
With respect to a passage through Torres’ Strait in the op- 
posite direction, — from the Indian Sea to the Great Ocean, it has not, 
to my knowledge, been attempted ; and I have some doubt of its 
practicability. A ship would have an advantage in entering the 
strait by its least dangerous side ; but as the passage could be made 
only in December, January, or February, the rainy squally weather 
which probably will then prevail, would augment the danger from the 
reefs ten fold. The experiment is therefore too hazardous for any 
except a ship on discovery ; whose business it is to encounter, and 
even to seek danger, when it may produce any important benefit toa 
geography and navigation. 
