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APPENDIX. 
A. but as the account says, that Kangaroo Island was seen 
Sect. VI. same day, which is not less than one hundred and fifty 
S. Coast, leagues from the above position, it appears too vague to 
be correct. (See Horsburgh, Supp. page 32.) 
Black Pyramid, oflP the north-west end of Van Die- 
men’s Land, in Bass’ Strait, is situated about 4' too much 
to the southward on Captain Flinders’s chart. 
Bell’s Rock. The following account of a rock, seen by 
Mr. Bell, the Commander of the ship Minerva, on her 
outward-bound passage to New Soutk Wales, appeared in 
a Sydney (New South Wales) Gazette, of the 16th of De- 
cember, 1824. 
“ On the 14th of November the Minerva very narrowly 
escaped striking on a rock, in the fair ’way of the west 
entrance to Bass’ Strait, on the south side of King’s Island. 
Reid’s rocks bearing North six miles, and the Black Pyra- 
mid E.S.E. : from this situation the danger was about half 
a mile off (to the southward) ; but as the water broke 
only at intervals of three or four minutes, although the 
swell v/as very heavy, it is probable there may be sufficient 
depth of water to carry a ship over it. An indifferent ob- 
servation made the latitude of the ship at the time 40° 26'.” 
In M. De Freycinet’s chart of Bass’ Strait, some rocky 
islets are placed forty miles east of Sea-Elephant Bay. I 
did not succeed in finding them, although the Mermaid 
sailed close to their position. (See Vol. i. page 446.) 
The PYRAMID, at the east end of Bass’ Strait, is placed 
five miles too much to the northward : its true situation is 
in latitude 39° 52' 40", and longitude 147° IT 30". 
A reef of rocks were seen by Lieutenant John Lamb, R.N., 
off Cape Albany Otway. (See Horsburgh, vol. ii. p. 499.) 
