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Rossbank Observatory—Hobart Town. Page 126.
CHAPTER V.
Terror Reef.—Beds of Seaweed.—Current.—The Ships part Company.—Hurricane.—Boatswain drowned.—Iceberg seen.—Succession of Gales.—Magnetic Force.—Observations.—Line of no Variation.—Make the Land.—Driven off by a Storm.—Anchor in the Derwent.—Magnetic Observatory.—Term-day Observations.—French Expedition.—French Discoveries.—American Expedition.—Selection of Route.—Van Diemen's Land.—Society of Hobart Town.—Proposed College.—Magnetometrical Observations.—Situation of Observatory.