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BOAT HARBOUR. 
upon the lagoon seen by Flinders from the mast- 
head. 
The traces of natives and their beaten pathways 
were here very numerous (of the latter of which 
there could not be less than thirty) all leading to a 
large deep hole, sunk about eight feet, principally 
through a soft limestone rock. This was carefully 
blocked up with large stones and mud, but upon 
clearing it out the water came bubbling up rapidly, 
and we got an abundant supply. The entrance from 
seawards to the sheet of water, or lagoon, is between 
two heads, (one of them being a high bluff) little 
more than a mile apart. There appeared to be a 
reef off the entrance outside, but our being without 
a boat prevented us from ascertaining how far this 
inlet was adapted for a harbour. Inside, the water is 
shallow towards the south, but deeper in the northern 
half of the inlet. 
November 2. — Tracing round the shores, we 
passed several other holes dug by the natives in the 
sand, to procure water ; these, however, did not 
appear of so permanent a character as the first, for 
many had fallen in, and others contained but very 
little water. The huts of the natives were numerous, 
and of a large and substantial description ; but we 
saw none of their owners. 
After leaving the inlet we pushed on through the 
scrub to a high bluff of granitic formation, distant 
about sixteen miles N. 35° W., and named by me 
