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1798                 close round the rock. At 8, when off a rocky point, on which are two
February           eminences of white stone in the form of oblique cones inclining inwards,
Saturday 10       we stood to the southward, and off and on during the night, keeping the peak and high land of Cape Barren in sight: the wind from the westward. At
Sunday 11 the following noon, the observed latitude was 40° 41½' Cape Barren bearing north by west – the wind being strong at west-south-west, we continued standing off and on, and lying to occasionally, till daylight next morning, when we made sail
Monday 12 west-north-west for the south end of Clarke's Island, having the wind now at north by east. A little to the westward of the rocky point, is a deep channel of between half and three quarters of a mile wide; and about the same distance to the westward of this island, is another of nearly the same size; they are rather low and covered with bush and grass. Between these islands and Clarkes Island we observed two low islets, and two rocks above water, the latter not more than three or four miles from us. To the southward also, we saw the land extended a great distance; but the whole are better seen in the sketch.
    About ten o'clock the ebb tide was running with such violence, that although the schooner was going one knot and a half through the water, yet by the land we were evidently going retrograde almost as much, and towards the land withal; but the light air that remained enabled us to draw the vessel