Volume I Part 22 (1/2)
Custo
Station Peak
Aboriginal Names
South Channel
Examine Western Port
Adventure with a Snake
Black Swans
Cape Patterson
Deep Soundings
Revisit King and Hunter Islands
Fire
Circular Head
Gales of Wind
Reid's Rocks
Sea Elephant Rock
Wild Dogs
Navarin and Harbinger Reefs
Arrive at Port Phillip
Sail for Sydney
Pigeon House
Drought
Mr Usborne leaves
Before quitting Sydney I ratitude for the hospitality we experienced during our stay, which prepared us with greater cheerfulness to encounter the difficulties we ht expect to meet with in the boisterous waters that rolled between the then imperfectly known shores, and islands of Bass Strait It was not until the 11th of November that we bade adieu to our friends, and sailed to commence our contemplated operations On the 14th we passed the rocky islands (Kent's Group) at the eastern entrance of the Strait, their barren and bleak appearance bespoke the constant gales that swept over theetation As we approached thes decreased to 28 fatho from the eastward in thick weather, of their proxiressed but slowly, and the passage through the Strait promised to be tedious: yet, as the as fair and the weather fine, we had no reason to co moreover the remarkably mild reception we met with in the Funnel, the naiven by the colonists to Bass Strait, froh it
WILSON'S PROMONTORY
On the 17th we passed Wilson's Promontory, the southern extremity of Australia, connected with the main by a low sandy isthmus, only left dry it is probable of late years It is a very randeur fro their surey mist On some occasions, however, the bold outline of the ainst a clear sky, and their loftiest points catch the first rays of thesun, as it rises from the eastern ocean Many small islands are dispersed over the sea in front of this pro apparently the tops of esting the belief that new countries are about to be disclosed
Passing Port Western, generally called Western Port, a high mound on the south-eastern extremity of Grant Island was the most conspicuous object
The next remarkable feature in the coast is Cape Shanck, a projection at the western end of a long line of cliffs Lying close off it is a rock, named, from its exact reseh)