page 32.) BLACK PYRAMID, off the north-west end of Van Diemen's Land, in Bass Strait, is situated about 4 minutes too much to the southward on Captain Flinders' chart.
BELL'S ROCK.

The following account of a rock, seen by Mr.Bell, the Commander of the ship Minerva, on her outward-bound passage to New South Wales, appeared in a Sydney (New South Wales) Gazette, of the 16th of December, 1824.
"On the 14th of November the Minerva very narrowly escaped striking on a rock, in the fairway of the west entrance to Bass Strait, on the south side of King's Island.

Reid's rocks bearing North six miles, and the Black Pyramid East-South-East: from this situation the danger was about half a mile off (to the southward); but as the water broke only at intervals of three or four minutes, although the swell was very heavy, it is probable there may be sufficient depth of water to carry a ship over it.

An indifferent observation made the latitude of the ship at the time 40 degrees 26 minutes." In M.De Freycinet's chart of Bass Strait, some rocky islets are placed forty miles east of Sea-Elephant Bay.

I did not succeed in finding them, although the Mermaid sailed close to their position.