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[1802 Aug. Monday] - 2nd. H.M.S.Investigator] along the east coast. Herveys B. towards Bustard B.
[Astronomical observations not reproduced - see original journal]

About 2 o'clock, the sloping hummock was in sight through the haze, and the wind backing round allowed us to fetch sufficiently near to the shore to continue the survey from where it was quitted by the Norfolk. Very soon after passing the hummock, the water shoals so much that there is no coming nearer to the shore than about 5 miles, and some of the sands are dry. The shoals are perhaps occasioned by some small, shallow inlets drains of water about this part which bring the sand down with them, but there does not seem to be any opening of consequence, or which is accessible to ships. - In the Norfolk, I made the width of the bay, much less than it is in C.C's, + [Captain Cook's] chart. By the time keepers now, the distance from the center of Sandy C. to sloping hummock is 46 miles: In C.C.s [Captain Cook's] chart it is 62 miles. - The shore near the sloping hummock is low and broken, with many shoals off it: the land is covered wth. small wood. As we advanced, the shore seems to be more woody; and hills rise a few miles inland, and continue in an irregular chain to the furthest extreme, which I suppose to be near Bustard Bay.

+always write captain Cook instead of C.C. [This note has been added in pencil]