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Latitude, You will Observe their Rout Markd & the Country describd, it was a very fatiguing Journey from the Number of rugged Mountains they had to ascend.
The Chart I formerly sent you it will be proper to destroy & Susbsitute this in lieu, for altho the Harbours are the same nearby, the interior is not equally Correct. I send one of the last Officially to the Duke of Portland.
I also Send you a Chart which will go near to prove what I had long believd to be the Case, (Viz) that Vandiemans Land is a Group of broken Islands laying off the Southern Extremity of this Country, which does not extend farther South than Latitude 39º" '00' So. Mr. Bass the Surgeon of the Reliance Coasted in a whale Boat from hence round this Southern point, from which the Lands trends away N NW he went about 60 miles beyond in that direction & at that distance discoverd a good Harbour formd between the Mainland & a Large Island - Mr. B was twelve Weeks on his exploring Voyage, & says in his Journal (which you will hereafter See) that after he had doubled in his Boat this So. point, he had occasion to Stretch to the SW, untill he was overtaken by a gale of wind from that Quarter, which Obligd him to put before it & return to the Land, that this Gale raisd so Mountainous a Sea