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lsis, we could make no very particular observation 
July 24 . upon Reid’s Rocks, but they appear to be correctly 
placed by Captain Flinders. 
We did not get through the Strait until the 
26th. In passing the Pyramid, it was found to 
be placed five miles too much to the northward 
in Captain Flinders’ chart. 
The weather was now thick with heavy rain, 
and the wind blowing a gale from W.S.W. I 
became very anxious to arrive at Port Jackson ; 
for we had but five men who could keep watch. 
The damp weather had attended us with little 
intermission since our passing Cape Leeuwin, 
and our people had been constantly wet with the 
continued breaking over of the sea : indeed the 
decks had only been twice dry, and that even for 
a few hours, since we left that meridian. 
27. On the 27th, by sunset, we were abreast of 
29 . Cape Howe; and on the 29th, at noon, the light- 
house on the south head of the port, was joyfully 
descried. At eight o’clock in the evening, we 
entered the heads, and anchored in Sydney Cove 
at midnight, after an absence of thirty-one weeks 
and three days. 
Upon reviewing the proceedings of the voyage, 
the result of which bore but a small proportion to 
what we had yet to do, I saw, with no little satis- 
faction, that I had been enabled to set at rest the 
