Observations on th 
Engliffi. 
Wood, 
The bone in 1 
the nofe , j 
A bag, 
A great cockle , 
Cocos, yams, 
ExpreJJions as tvs 
Jupptfed of admi- 
ration, which 
they continually 
ufed tvhen they 
were in company 
* with us. 
Tides an& Currents. 
New Holland, 
Yocou. 
Tapool. 
Gharngala, 
Moingo. 
* Maracotu, 
"Cherr, 
Cherco, 
< Yarcaw, 
Tut, tut, 
« L tut, tut. 
*53 
I Ihall now quit this country, with a few obfervations re- 
lative to the currents and tides upon the coaft. From lati- 
tude 3 2°, and fomewhat higher, down to Sandy Cape, in 
latitude 24° 46', we conftantly found a current fetting to the 
fouthward, at the rate of about ten or fifteen miles a day, 
being more or lefs, according to our diitance from the land, 
for it always ran with more force in ffiore than in the offing ; 
but I could never fatisfy myfeif whether the flood-tide came 
from the fouthward, the eaftward, or the northward : I in- 
clined to the opinion that it came from the fouth-eaft, but 
the firft time we anchored off the coaft, which was in latitude 
24 0 30', about ten leagues to the fouth eaft of Bullard Bay, I 
found it come from the north weft ; on the contrary, thirty 
leagues farther to the north weft, on the fouth fide of Keppel 
Bay, I found that it came from the eaft, and at the northern 
part of that bay it came from the northward, but with a much 
flower motion than it had come from the eaft : on the eaft fide 
of the Bay of Inlets, it fet ftrongly to the weftward, as far as 
the opening of Broad Sound j but on the north fide of that 
found, it came with a very flow motion from the north wgft ; 
and when we lay at anchor before Repulfe Bay, it came from 
the northward : to account for its courfe in all this variety 
of directions, we need only admit that the flood-tide comes 
from the eaft or fouth eaft. It is well-known, that where there 
are deep inlets, and large creeks into low lands, running up 
from the fea, and not occafioned by rivers of frelh water, 
there will always be a great indraught of the flood-tide, the 
direction of which will be determined by the pofition of di- 
rection of the coaft which forms the entrance of fuch inlet, 
whatever be its courfe at fea ; and where the tides are weak, 
which upon this coaft is generally the cafe, a large inlet will, 
if I may be allowed the expreflion, attraCl the flood-tide for 
many leagues. 
