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A. than three and a quarter fathoms, unless your vessel is 
Se^I. small, nor within two hundred yards of the shore, for al- 
E. Coast, though it is bold in most parts close to, yet there are some 
few straggling rocks off the south point of Watson’s Bay, 
and also some round Shark’s Island. There is good an- 
chorage in all parts of the harbour, when within Middle and 
the South Heads. There is also anchorage in North Har- 
bour, but not to be recommended, for the swell sometimes 
rolls into the mouth of the harbour ; no swell can, how- 
ever, affect the anchorage between Middle Head and the 
Sow and Pigs. 
SYDNEY COVE is nearly half a mile deep, and four 
hundred yards wide, and will contain more than twenty 
ships swinging at their moorings. The shores are bold to, 
and, excepting the rocky shoals that extend off Point Ben- 
nilong and Point Dawes, ships may approach very near. 
On the eastern side of the cove is a convenient place for 
heaving down ; it belongs to the government, but merchant 
ships may use it, by paying a small sum according to the 
length of time it is engaged. Wood and water are easily 
obtained from the north shore of the port ; the former 
may be cut close to the beach ; the latter is collected in 
tanks, and, excepting during a very dry season, is always 
abundant. 
The tide rises occasionally at the springs as much as 
eight feet, but six feet is the general rise ; it is high water 
at Sydney Cove at half past eight o’clock, but at the heads, 
it precedes this time by a quarter of an hour. The variation 
of the magnetic needle observed on shore by Lieutenant Roe 
at Sydney cove in 1822, to be 8° 42' East, 
at Garden Island . .96 East, 
at Camp Cove . , 9 42 East. 
