From the masthead I could see nothing indicating a shoal.

Captain King passed near this position, and also remarks not seeing it.

The Colonial schooner Champion, in beating to the southward, has passed over and near its assigned position, and I think we may fairly infer that there is no such reef as the Turtle Dove, and that probably it originated from the south end of the Abrolhos reef, ten miles North-North-West of it, being seen.

We found 29 fathoms on this supposed shoal, with 35, twelve miles South by East of it, and 127, twenty-eight miles in the same direction.

Between it and the south end of the Abrolhos Group the water deepened to 35 fathoms.