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isi8. the sea broke : we passed within the rock, carry- 
M arch 26; xng two and a quarter fathoms ; and then hauled 
in for a point of land, called after my friend 
Captain G. H. Guion, R.N. ; but not succeeding 
in finding anchorage under it, we bore away 
along the shore, and at night anchored off Point 
Turner. Between Points Guion and Turner is a 
deep but a rocky bay, at the bottom of which is 
an appearance of an opening lined with man- 
groves : to the westward of Point Turner is ano- 
ther bay, which circumstances did not then allow 
of our examining. From our anchorage the land 
was traced as far as N.W., and appeared to be 
an island separated from the main by a strait. 
27 . The next day we passed through it, and anchored 
in a bay on the S.W. side of the island, at 
about half-a-mile from the beach. The Strait was 
named Macquarie Strait, after the late Major- 
General Lachlan Macquarie, who administered 
the government of New South Wales for a period 
of nearly twelve years. 
As the shores of the bay, in which we had 
anchored, appeared likely to afford both wood 
and water, of which articles we were much in 
want, I was induced to take advantage of the 
opportunity, and immediately made preparation 
to commence these occupations. In the evening 
a pit was dug for water, which oozed so fast into 
