COASTS OT AUSTRALIA. 
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from the vessel’s track, and Mr. Roe, from the I 822 . 
mast-head, thought that the east side of the shoal Feb. 4. 
did not appear to be so steep as the western 
side. 
From noon we steered east to make the shoal 
seen by the Good Hope, but having sailed in 
that direction as far as latitude 17° 42 ' 51", and 
longitude 119° 32' 4", without seeing any signs 
of it for ten miles on either side of our course^ 
we hauled to the wind for the night, and sounded 
in one hundred and forty-five fathoms speckled 
sand and broken shells. 
At seven o’clock the following morning we 5 . 
were steering east, when broken water was re- 
ported bearing from East to E.S.E., but it turned 
out to be a rippling which we passed through. 
These ripplings have been frequently noticed 
in the vicinity of the reefs, but we have been 
very little affected by the tides by which they 
must be occasioned. At noon we were by 
observation in 17° 43' 41", and longitude 119° 
41' 52", when we sounded in one hundred and 
twenty fathoms, speckled sand mixed with broken 
shells and stones ; and at twenty miles farther 
to the eastward sounded again on the same 
depth. At eight o’clock the next morning, having 
steered through the night N.E.b.E., we were in 
