316 SURVEY OF NORFOLK ISLAND. 
me that this detour from Sydney to the Friendly 
Islands makes the best passage. 
" Having effected a landing on Norfolk Island 
on the 6th instant, a precarious process, but in 
our case without accident to any person or the 
instruments, a very satisfactory set of observa- 
tions, including circum-meridians for latitude, 
were obtained. 
" I am enabled to inform you, that the geo- 
graphic position of Norfolk Island may be re- 
corded as having its landing rock on the settle- 
ment on the south-west side in 
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Latitude 29 3 45 S. 
Longitude 167 58 6 E. 
Magnetic variation in June (1855) . 12 34 E. 
while Mount Pitt, the highest point of the island 
towards its north-west end, as deduced trigono- 
metrical! y, is in 
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Latitude 29 56 S. 
Longitude ......... 167 57 E. 
elevated above the sea, 1,039 feet, and visible 
36 miles. 
" The very boisterous weather in this region 
at this its winter season, occasioning the shifting 
of the ship from one side of the island to the 
other for shelter, has obstructed the surveying 
operations I designed ; nevertheless, by the assi- 
duity of Lieutenant Hutchinson and Mr. Smith, 
as well as Messrs. Howard and Wilds, I shall 
be enabled to improve Bradley 's chart, in regard 
to anchorage soundings, the edge of soundings, 
and its direction of meridian. 
