SAILING DIRECTIONS. 
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As all navigators are, or ought to be, supplied with Cap- A. 
tain Horsburgh’s Indian Directory, it has not been thought 
necessary to descant further upon the nature of the winds E. Coast 
and currents of the east coast ; since this subject has been 
so fully treated upon, in the above valuable book, in the 
section that commences at page 501. 
Captain Horsburgh has also described the entrance of 
Botany Bay at page 502, and of Broken Bay, at page 505. 
According to Lieutenant Jeffreys, R.N., who commanded the 
hired armed transport Kangaroo, the latter harbour has a 
bar stretching across from the south to the north head, on 
which there is not less than five fathoms water. 
PORT HUNTER is situated fifty-nine miles N. 22° E. 
(true,) from the entrance of Port Jackson. There is a light- 
house at its southern entrance, and pilots are established 
who come off to vessels that arrive. The entrance is round 
the Nobby (latitude 32° 56', longitude 151° 43^'), an insu- 
lated rock ; and the passage is indicated by keeping two 
lights, that are placed at a distance from each other at the 
wharf, in a line ; the anchorage is about two hundred yards 
from the wharf in three fathoms. The shoals on the west 
side are dangerous, and several vessels have been wrecked 
upon them in going in. The above information is from a 
plan drawn by Lieutenant Jeffreys, in the Hydrographical 
Office at the Admiralty ; it was drawn in the year 1816; 
since which a portion of the labour of the convicts has been 
employed in building a breakwater, or pier, from the south 
entrance to the Nobby Rock, which will tend to direct the 
stream of tide through the channel, — and also protect it 
from the surf and swell, which, during a south-east gale, 
must render the harbour of dangerous access. The town 
was formerly called King’s Town, but it has since been 
