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1802 July [Saturday] - 24 continued. Additional remarks P.M.
[Astronomical observations not reproduced - see original journal]

The three brothers are irregular hills being the extremity of a body of high land from the interior part: they lie from l1/2 to 5 miles from the shore. They seem to be well covered with wood, as does most of the higher land in their neighbourhood.
   The projection, off which we wore ship at dusk, is somewhat irregularly formed. At its northern part is a rocky lump of a sugar-loaf shape, and beyond it the shore falls back and seems to be low. The water seems to be shoal in this bight, and there are some rocks above water in the southern part of it. The coast for some distance to the northward of the three Brothers having been passed by captain Cook in the night, I wished to examine it closely; and for that reason we hauled to the wind, instead of standing on all night.
  The land along which we steered in the ni
  The Lady Nelson not being in sight after 10 o'clock excited some surprise, since from the shifts of wind in our favour we kept our situation own under the top sails only; but we concluded that she would be found somewhere in the neighbourhood of the point from which we hauled off in the evening.