that the rock? islets, round which we passed last ?ste. ewnln?, were those off Captain Flinders's Point. joly s? Dale. There was, however, an error of. ten miles, in the latitude, which was so unusual an occur-' fence in the charts of that navigator, that for some tlm?. I doubted the justice of my suspicions; but, on .referring to the account of his voyage, it ap- peared .that no meridional observation was ob- tained by him for the latitude near this channel; and also that the weather, when he passed through was thick and cloudy. This error, therefore, when he was unassisted by an observation for his latitude, in a place where the tide sets at the rate of three or four knots, did not appear at all improbable; and as my conjectures, by com- paring.our respective p]ans, were soon afterwards confirmed, we hauled in for .the extremity of the land in sight. The Strait to the eastward of Point Dale, I have named after my friend, Robert Brown, Esq., the profound botanist of that voyage. In the evening we anchored about three miles from a. low rocky island; beyond which is an opening like a rivulet, but .it was so inconsider- able in appearance, that I was not induced to examine it farther. � The next evening we anchored at the bottom so.
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