1818. 
July 24. 
148 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
produit de ce genre; mais notre commandant, 
sans s’inquieter d’une phenomene qui se rattache 
cependant d’une maniere essentielle a la geogra- 
phie de cette portion de la Nouvelle Hollande, 
donna l’ordre de poursuivre notre route*.’’ 
The rise of the tide was found by the French 
officer who landed upon it, to be at least twenty- 
five feet, which fact of itself was sufficient to have 
induced us to examine into the cause of so un- 
usual a circumstance ; for the greatest rise that we 
had hitherto found was not more than eight oi 
nine feet. 
The hills at the back of this group of islands, 
which Commodore Baudin called L’Archipel Fo- 
restier, recede from the coast in the shape of an 
amphitheatre, which made me suppose that the 
coast trended in and formed a deep bay ; but this 
still remains to be ascertained, and we quitted 
the place with much regret: for it unquestionably 
presented a far more interesting feature than any 
part that we had previously seen. 
On our passage to the north coast, we saw the 
Imperieuse and Clerke’s Shoals, and also dis- 
covered a third, the Mermaid s. 
On the north coast, we found some deep bays, 
and excellent ports, and at the bottom of the great 
* Peron Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes, Vol. 1. 
p. 130. 
