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1820. The country between Port Bowen and Shoal- 
July 22. water Bay is low and overrun with mangroves ; 
but Captain Flinders * speaks more favourably 
of the land about the latter bay, particularly 
in the vicinity of his Pine Mount, where he 
describes the soil as being fit for cultivation. 
At Upper Head in Broad Sound, the country ap- 
pears to be still better f ; in addition to which, 
the great rise of tides might be of considerable 
importance to that place, should a settlement 
there ever be contemplated. 
Having obtained sights on the beach at Cape 
Clinton for the time-keepers, we sailed out of 
this port by the same track that we entered ; and 
held our course to the northward, towards the 
Northumberland Islands. 
At midnight we were abreast of the Percy 
23. Islands. At noon the next day we passed to 
the westward of the islet, marked k 1, and thence 
steered between the Three Rocks and k 2, 
and, before sunset, were near 1 2, the island on 
which Captain Flinders landed. The night was 
24. passed under sail, and at daylight, when we 
resumed our course towards the Cumberland 
Islands, Linne Peak and Shaw’s Peak, and 
the land about Capes Hillsborough and Con- 
* Flinders, vol. ii. p. 51. 
f Idem, vol. ii. p* 71. 
