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The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

CHAPTER 30
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BASS'S EYE-SKETCH OF WESTERNPORT.
Western Port on the South Coast of NW.

SOUTH WALES from Mr.Bass's Eye-sketch.
1798.
8.

PORTRAIT OF GEORGE BASS.
9.

PAGE FROM FLINDERS' MANUSCRIPT NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE OF THE FRANCIS, 1798.
(Melbourne Public Library.) (12) 1798 FEBRUARY SATURDAY 10 close round the rock.

At 8, when off a rocky point on which are two eminences of white stone in the form of oblique cones inclining inwards, we stood to the southward, and off and on during the night, keeping the peak and high land of Cape Barren in sight, the wind, from the westward.
SUNDAY 11 At the following noon, the observed latitude was 40 degrees 41 1/2, Cape Barren bearing north-by-west.


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