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SURVEY OP THE INTERTROPICAL 
1831. Our course was directed entirely by the chart 
July 1. I had previously formed ; for the weather was so 
thick, that for the greater part of the way no 
land could be seen to guide us : by noon we had 
passed between Cape York and Mount Adol- 
phus, and in a short time rounded the north- 
end of Wednesday Island, and were steering 
between it and the North-West R^ef. 
After passing the rock off Hammond’s Island, 
we steered W.b.S.|S., but were obliged to haul 
up S.W.b.W. to pass to the southward of a small 
shoal, some part of which was uncovered (the 
time of tide being nearly low water, spring 
tide) : this shoal lies in a N. 50° W. direction, 
from the low rocky ledge off the north end of 
Good’s Island, and is distant from it about a 
mile and a half. The Dick being a little to 
leeward of our track, had four fathoms ; but the 
least we had was five and three-quarters. This 
reef is not noticed in Captain Flinders’s chart : 
at high water, or even at half ebb, it is very 
dangerous, from its lying in the direct track ; but, 
by hauling over to the south shore, may be easily 
avoided 
At four o’clock we passed Booby Island, and 
steered W.b.S. across the Gulf of Carpentaria. 
Between Booby Island and Cape Wessel, 
which we passed in sight of on the 3d, we had 
