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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect. IV. 
N.’West 
Coast. 
ground. At the latter end of February the westerly winds 
die away, and are succeeded by light, baffling, easterly 
winds, with damp, unwholesome weather, and attended oc- 
casionally by heavy squalls of wind and rain. 
If a ship is detained late in the easterly monsoon, and 
wishes to get to the westward, she will find the wind more 
regular and strong from the eastward in the neighbour- 
hood of Timor, where the easterly monsoon lasts until the 
first or second week in November : in the months of Sep- 
tember and October, to the southward of the parallel of 12°, 
the winds are almost constant from S.W. 
The currents are stronger according to the regularity and 
strength of the wind, and generally set at the rate of one 
or one knot and a half. The tides in this part of the coast 
are noticed in the description of the places where they were 
observed. High water at full and change takes place at 
The anchorage off Vansittart Bay at . . 9^ 15' 
In Montagu Sound at 12 00 
In Careening Bay at ....... 12 00 
In Prince Regent's River at .... 12 20 
The rise of the tide, to the westward of Cape Van Diemen, 
and particularly to the westward of Cape Bougainville, ap- 
peared gradually to increase : the greatest that we expe- 
rienced was in the vicinity of Buccaneer’s Archipelago; and 
at the anchorage in Camden Bay the tide rose thirty-seven 
feet ; occasioned probably by the intersected nature of the 
vcoast. 
The variation in this interval is almost too trifling to be 
noticed for the purposes of common navigation. Between 
Capes Londonderry and Van Diemen it varies between 
and 1° East. Between the former and Careening Bay it 
was between 1° and 1|° East; at Careening Bay the mean 
of the observations gave West; but to the westward of 
