COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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islands were examined by Commodore Baudin, isl- 
and an elaborate survey made of them by Jan. 2. 
his officers ; but this danger is not noticed 
on their plan of the group. The rocks bear 
N. 30° W. (by compass) from the northernmost 
point of the island, and N. 8° E. (by compass) 
from the northernmost hummock. I do not think 
they extend far from the shore. 
At sunset, we were in the meridian of Alba- 
tross Island, and by midnight cleared the Strait, 
when we steered a course for King George the 
Third’s Sound. 
Upon examining our bread, we found that a 
considerable quantity was spoiled from damp 
and leaks, which necessarily obliged us to go at 
once upon a reduced allowance of that article. 
From a succession of westerly winds, the vessel 
was driven so near to the Archipelago of the Re- 
cherche, that we were induced to bear up for the 
anchorage in Goose Island Bay; but as we 
steered round Douglas’s Isles, the wind veered 16. 
back to the S. E., and we might have proceeded: 
we were, however, so near the anchorage, that I 
determined upon occupying it for the night ; and 
steering in between Middle Island and Goose 
Island, the anchor was dropped off the first 
sandy beach to the eastward of the highest hill, 
at the north-west end of the former. 
