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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819. lie E. 3° S. (true), seventeen miles and a half 
Dec . 27 . from Lawrence Island: a second island has a 
place in Captain Flinders’ chart, but we saw 
nothing of it. The coast also lies farther back 
in proportion to the error of the island's position. 
Jau 2 ^ At four o’clock p.m., 2d January, we entered 
Bass’ Strait by the channel on the north side of 
King’s Island ; after passing through the strait, 
we experienced so much bad weather and con- 
trary gales of wind, that we did not arrive at 
12. Port Jackson until the morning of the 12th, hav- 
ing been absent thirty-five weeks, and four 
days. 
The result of our proceedings during this voy- 
age, has been the survey of 540 miles of the 
northern coast, in addition to the 500 that were 
previously examined. Besides which we had 
made a running survey of that portion of the in- 
tertropical part of the east coast, that is situated 
between the Percy Isles and Torres Strait ; a 
distance of 900 miles; the detailed survey of 
which had never before been made, for Captain 
Cook merely examined it in a cursory manner 
as he passed up the coast. The opportunity, 
therefore, was not lost of making such observa- 
tions on our voyage as enabled me to present to 
the public a route towards Torres Strait infinitely 
preferable on every account to the dangerous 
