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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819. was lost to our view behind a point, which we 
Aug. 7. afterwards discovered to be the Point Braithwaite 
of our last voyage, the land of which had the 
appearance of being an island. 
The bay thus formed, was called Junction Bay ; 
it was not examined, but, from the direction of 
its trend, did not appear likely to afford much 
interest, and could lead to no opening of im- 
s. portance. At eight o’clock the next morning, we 
were near Goulburn Island, steering through 
Macquarie Strait; and at eleven o’clock we an- 
chored in South-west Bay, near our former wa- 
tering-place. 
As soon as the vessel was secured, I went on 
shore to examine whether water could be ob- 
tained. In this object we were successful ; and a 
basin was dug to receive the water that drained 
through the cliffs ; but, from the advanced state 
of the dry season, it did not flow in half the 
quantity that it did last year. The vegetation 
appeared to have suffered much from drought, 
and the grass, which at our last visit was long 
and luxuriant, was now either parched up by 
the sun, or destroyed by the natives’ fires, which, 
at this time, were burning on the low land in 
front of Wellington Range. 
In the evening I went to Bottle Rock, but 
found our bottle had been removed; the rocks 
