SAILING DIRECTIONS. 
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THE TWEED is a river communicating with the sea by a A. 
bar, on which there is twelve feet water, it is situated about 
a mile and a half to the north of a small island off Point Coast 
Danger, which lies in latitude 28° 8'. 
In latitude 28° there is a communication with the inlet at 
the south side of Moreton Bay, insulating the land whose 
north extremity is Point Lookout. The entrance of this 
inlet is shoal and only passable for boats. 
MORETON BAY In addition to the account of this 
bay by Captain Flinders f, Lieutenant Oxley has lately dis- 
covered the Brisbane, a very fine fresh water river that 
falls into it in 27° 25' latitude, abreast of the strait between 
Moreton Island and Point Lookout. 
WIDE BAY, the entrance of which is in latitude 25° 49', 
was examined by Mr. Edwardson, the master of one of the 
government colonial vessels ; he found it to be a good port, 
having in its entrance a channel of not less than three fa- 
thoms deep ; and to communicate with Hervey’s Bay, thus 
making an island of the Great Sandy Peninsula. 
INDIAN HEAD is in latitude 25° 1', and longitude 
153° 23'. 
* This bay was originally called Glass House Bay, in allusion to 
the name given by Captain Cook to three remarkable glass house 
looking hills near Pumice-stone River ; but as Captain Cook be- 
stowed the name of Moreton Bay upon the strait to the south of 
Moreton Island, that name has a prior claim, and is now generally 
adopted. A penal settlement has lately been formed at Red Cliff 
Point, which is situated a little to the north of the embouchure of 
the Brisbane River. 
t Flinders’s Introdnc, cxcvi. 
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