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and deep towards Channel Point ; close to which isi9. 
we had sixteen fathoms, and then hauled up round Sept. 2. 
Peron’s South Island. 
The land, from Channel Point, trends to the 
S.S.E., and forms a tolerably deep bight of low, 
sandy land, terminated by Cliff Head, a high 
rocky projection well furnished with trees. In 
this bay there is, probably, an opening, but it 
is small and lined with mangroves. After passing 
Channel Point the depth rapidly decreased, and, 
as we crossed a shoal, which runs off from the 
south-east end of Peron’s South Island and ex- 
tends deeply into the bay, we carried from two 
and three-quarters, to three and a half fathoms. 
On clearing it we steered S.S.W., and after 
dark, anchored in five fathoms, mud. Cliff Head 
bearing S. 71° E. (Magnetic.) 
The bay, between the two projections, received 
the name of Anson Bay, after the noble family of 
that name. During the night, we had a remark- 
able copious fall of dew. The next' day, at 
eleven o’clock, we were off Cape Ford : from this 
cape, the coast trends in a S. 48° W. direction 3 . 
for five miles, to a low projecting point, near the 
extremity of which a clump of trees, remarkable 
for their rounded form and singular appearance, 
was conspicuous: hence it extends S. 5 ±° W. 
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