COAST9 OF AU?FRALIA. 173 This last ! did not see myself, but two men !s?.. perceived it distinctly from the mast-head, and Jan. J?. it is from their accounts-that ! am induced to give it a place upon the chart. The Pesitiou of the vessel, when we saw the breaketa, was in latitude 2? �, and in longitude 114 �. and from the short interval between our oh-. ta'ming sights for the chronometer, and the me- ridional observation at noon, the position may be considered to be tolerably correct. After taking the bearings, and before sail was made, we sounded in twenty-five fathoms, fine shelly sand; but, as we stood to the eastward, the water gradually .deepened to twenty-nine and thirty fathoms. The next morning at daylight the land .was out of sight, but at five o'clock was distinguished, forming a range of fiat-topped land, probably about one thousand feet .high. At the northern end of the range were four or five hills standing apart from each other, of which? in the view we then had of them, the north?mmost? was flat- topped, and the others peaked; at the south end of the range were three other distinct hills,. the centre being peaked and the other two fiat- topped. Near the centre of the main range was another summit that was remarkable for its form. This range was seen by Captain Hamelin of
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