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Remarks by Lieut. Kay, R.N., 
long wished for discovery of a passage into the Southern Ocean.” 
On the 10th, Flinders rounded Cape Grim, and made consider¬ 
able progress to the southward, naming Mount Norfolk after his 
little sloop, as he skirted the coast. On the 1 ltli December, two 
more small mountains were seen, supposed by Flinders to be the 
same as seen by Tasman, on discovering the land, November the 
24th, 1642, and they were therefore named by the former Mount 
Heemskerk and Mount Zeehaan, after Tasman’s ships. 
Here he overlooked Macquarie Harbour , although his journal 
does notice a rather deep bight, where he thought it probable 
there might be some opening; but from the direction and strength 
of the wind there was too much danger in bearing away for its 
examination. Still running along the land, on the evening of the 
same day he discovered and named Point Hibbs; and, after 
fixing its latitude by his run from the noon observation, hauled 
off on a wind, at 8 o’clock. 
The next morning, the 12th, he closed the land early ; passed 
a point which merited the name of Rocky Point, and another 
which was named Point St. Vincent, and succeeded in obtaining 
two sets of lunar distances, the only observations for longitude 
which Flinders obtained on the west coast. The breeze dying 
away in the evening, drifted the sloop towards an opening round 
Point St. Vincent; but when day broke on the 13th, the current 
had set them (owing to the continued calm all night) ten miles to 
the southward. “ This circumstance,” Flinders says, “ and a 
breeze, which arose at north, precluded me from examining the 
opening, as I had intended.” It will thus be perceived how Flin¬ 
ders passed Port Davey without examination, and which was not 
discovered until some years afterwards by Mr. Kelly, the pilot. 
On December 13th, Flinders rounded the south-west cape, which 
he places in lat. 43° 32' S., but owing to adverse winds, and 
time occupied in examining Norfolk Bay, he did not reach the 
Derwent until the 23rd. 
It is not necessary to trace his cruize any farther. My object 
in doing so thus far, has been to point out what were the means 
which Flinders possessed for making correct astronomical deter¬ 
minations, of such portions of the western coast as a hasty 
