SAILING DIRECTIONS. 
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There appears to be a considerable difference in the a. 
positions assigned to Albatross Island, by the French Sect. VI. 
expedition and Captain Flinders; the former made the dif- S. Coast, 
ference between the meridian of Albatross Island, and that 
of the rock in Sea-Elephant Bay, 24 ' 45 "; whilst by the 
latter it is 32' 30". But as Captain Flinders only saw the 
north end of King’s Island, the error seems to originate 
in his having laid down its eastern side from other autho- 
rities, for his difference of longitude between its north-west 
point and the centre of Albatross Island only differs 2 ' 30" 
from the French, who surveyed that island with great care. 
Several sunken rocks have been discovered from time to 
time near the north end of Great Island, so that ships, 
bound through Bass’ Strait to the eastward, should not 
pass within Craggy Island without using great caution. 
The best passage is on the south side of Kent’s Group, 
between it and the rocky islet (Wright’s Rock) to the 
south-east. 
In a line between the above rocky islet and Craggy Island, 
and about two miles from die former, is a reef with two 
small rocks upon it. (See Horsburgh, Supp. p. 32.) 
There are some considerable errors in Captain Flinders’s 
chart of Van Diemen’s Land, with respect to the latitudes 
of the South-west Cape, the Mewstone, the South cape, 
and the land between them. The first is laid down 8' too 
much to the N. 30° W. (true), and the other places in pro- 
portion. The corrected situations are given at page 223, of 
the second volume of this work. 
