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examination. The longitude was determined by a great 
number of lunar obfervations, which we had before we 
made the land, while we were in light of it, and after we 
had left it; and reduced to Adventure Bay, and the feve- 
ral principal points, by the time-keeper. The following 
Table will exhibit both the longitude and latitude at one 
view: 
Adventure Bay, 
Tafman’s Head, 
South Cape, 
South Well Cape, 
Swilly Ille, 
Latitude South. 
Longitude Eaft. 
43 ° 
2V 
20 — 
- 147 ° 29 ' 
O' 
43 
33 
0 — 
— 147 28 
0 
43 
42 
0— 
-I46 56 
0 
43 
37 
0— 
146 7 
0 
43 
55 
0— 
-147 6 
0 
1777- 
January. 
Adventure Bay,! Variation of the com P afs 5 ° V Eaft - 
l Dip of the South End of the N eedle 70° 15 
We had high-water on the 29th, being two days before 
the lall quarter of the moon, at nine in the morning. The 
perpendicular rife then was eighteen inches; and there 
was no appearance of its having ever exceeded two feet and 
a half. Thefe are all the memorials ufeful to navigation, 
which my Ihort flay has enabled me to preferve, with re- 
fpedl to Van Diemen’s Land. 
Mr. Anderfon, my Surgeon, with his ufual diligence, 
fpent the few days we remained in Adventure Bay, in exa¬ 
mining the country. His account of its natural produc¬ 
tions, with which he favoured me, will more than com- 
penfate for my filence about them : fome of his remarks on 
the inhabitants will fupply what I may have omitted or re- 
prefented imperfectly; and his fpecimen -of their language, 
however Ihort, will be thought worth attending to, by thofe 
who wilh to collect materials for tracing the origin of na- 
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