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Extract from Ensign Barralliers Letter to Mr. Greville.
My first Expedition was to Western Port, my Survey included Wilsons Promontory, Cape Liptrap, Cape Patterson & Western Port. The Second Hunters Harbor & Rivers.
I believe Wilsons Promontory Lat. 39°.1 to be the End of the first chain of Mountains known by the name of the Blue Hawkesbury Mountains. Extending inland and begining at Hunters River Lat. 32.57.
The Coast from the Promontory to Western Port is low and sandy. Mountains appear at a great distance behind Wilsons promontory & continue behind Western Port at the distance of 3 & 4 Miles from the Sea & if I may judge by the acute angle they form, lose themselves in or about Lat. 38, 37. This Second range is I believe the combination of Kings range which you will see in my plan of Hunters River.
The Entrance of Hunters river Lat. 32. 57. So. is distinguished by an Island on its Southern side, which on coming from the Northward appears like a Castle being a perpendicular cliff of 203 Feet, on the South Side. The North Side is not steep & coverd with grass.