306 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819. was that, in getting under weigh, the cutter might 
SeptT 29 . cast with her head in-shore, when we should 
certainly have been thrown upon the bank ; our 
fears, however, upon this point were happily 
groundless, and our course being unimpeded, 
we made quick way towards Lacrosse Island, 
which was passed at daylight. 
Having now cleared this extraordinary inlet, 
which was named Cambridge Gulf, in honour 
of His Royal Highness the Viceroy of Hanover, 
we bore up along shore to the westward, suffi- 
ciently near to it to have perceived any opening 
that might exist, and to make such remarks as 
were necessary for its delineation. At sunset 
we were off Cape St. Lambert of the French, 
and their Mount Casuarina was also seen. M. de 
Freycinet’s description of the hill is very correct, 
but, at the distance which we were, it was only 
visible when it bore between South and W.S. W. ; 
for the land, in that bearing, intervened and con- 
cealed it. Large fires were burning three or 
four miles in-land. At sunset we hauled off 
so. shore for the night ; and the next morning saw 
Mount Casuarina again bearing south ; its lati- 
tude was found to be 14“ 23' 15 , and its lon- 
gitude 127° 36' 50" East of Greenwich, which is 
3' 10" to the westward of the situation that the 
French have assigned to it. 
