Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/244

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�error, and on this o?.sion a velBr ?idemble oho was detoct? .- When. Capta?. Flinders passed .round .Van Diemen's l?d in the Norfolks h e .obtained a ,meridional s/?pplemontary altitude of the. s?i? �the south, his vessel being under the land, , which made th? South.west, Cape in '4? �fk; ,l?t finding the: next day, that' his ? 'ff 40" in ?rro?' to the north, he asiig?l ,tO .t/ie 'cape ?' positioa of 48 �.. Ia .the. lntr?l?e- tion to his voyage* he makes some remarks in a note upon the positions assigned to it by Captaias . CoOk and Furneaux ;' the 'latter officer placed it in 4a �, in whioh I.' also found it to be by its transient bearing from the South Cape, ]By a series of' bearings' carried ?1ong the coast, i?s p0sitiol? is thirty-three miles W. 3 �tlue, froIn the South CaB, All part? of the coast in this interval are pro- portionally in error as to latitude, bat tolera- . bly well placed in reference to'the coast. The subjoined we the positions now assigned to the following places, v/?.: South (Jape .. , . 4? 088; , . 146 �ewstone . , . .48 40 .. 14o ' lgouth-west Cape . . 48 3o . 14o IS.