COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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navigators; I think, however, there is no doubt issa 
that it does exist, but that it is no other than the Oct. 31. 
main land to the southward of the North West 
Cape. The descriptions of this island by Captain 
Nash, of the ship House of Austria, as well as 
that of the Haeslingfield, in 1743, and subse- 
quently by Captain Pelly, accord exactly with 
the appearance of this promontory; nor is the 
longitude much in error, when we consider the 
strength of the currents which set to the north- 
west, during the easterly monsoon, in the space 
between New Holland and Java. Captain Nash 
places Cloates Island 7° 26' East of Java Head, 
and the Haeslingfield 7° 12'; the mean of the 
two accounts is 7° 19' ; the true difference of the 
meridians of Java Head and the North West 
Cape is 9° 8', a difference only of 1° 44V 
May not the Tryal Rocks also be some of 
the low islands that skirt the coast? The account 
of them by the Dutch sloop, in 1718, places them 
in latitude 19° 30', and eighty leagues from the 
coast of New Holland ; but, unless it is Bedout 
Island, (a sandy islet seen by Captain Baudin, in 
longitude 118° 50',) there is no part of the coast 
that can at all accord with the description in re- 
spect to latitude. The rocks seen by the Fre- 
densberg Castle in 1777, are certainly the Mont- 
ebello Isles, which answer the Dane’s description 
