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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPIC YL 
1820 . were upwards of an hour pumping out the water 
Nov. 1 . that had collected in three hours. 
2 . On the 2nd of November we crossed the 
4 . Tropic of Capricorn, in lOM 0 E., and on the 4th, 
in latitude 28°, the trade-wind ceased : the winds 
were, however, variable between South and S.E. 
until we reached the latitude of 31|°, and lon- 
gitude 95° 20'; when the wind veered by 
N.E. to N.W. and W.N.W., and we made rapid 
progress to the south-east. Between the parallels 
of 40° and 42°, we had the wind always to the 
westward of N.b.E. and S.b. W., with the current 
uniformly setting to the northward, sometimes, 
at the rate of three-quarters of a mile per hour ; 
to the south-west of Cape Leeuwin it affected us 
more than one knot: scarcely any easterly cur- 
rent was observed. 
27 . On the 27th, at eight p.m., we sounded in 
forty-eight fathoms ; and, at one o’clock the fol- 
28 . lowing morning, saw the Black Pyramid, and 
soon after entered Bass’s Strait by the passage on 
the south side of King’s Island. After running 
into the latitude of Sea Elephant Bay, on the 
east side of King’s Island, in an unsuccessful 
search after some rocks laid down in the French 
charts, but not noticed in those of Captain Flin- 
ders, we bore up ; and at eleven p.m. passed 
