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1^ EARLY RECORDS OF PORT PHILLIP. officers returnd, but fonnd no water fit for use. Sent the carpenter and some men to look for wood on shore. Thursday^ 13. Wind S.W. a.m. — Fresh breezes and cloudy. Sent the small launch for water. The same party of officers went to survey the S.E. part of the Bay and watering place. The carpenter returnd from on shore, where he had been to search for wood to secure the head and knees of the ship. Had not seen any fit for that purpose. At 15. jDast 1. confind Lieut. Donovan to his cabin pr order of Capt. Woodrifi", for his being absent from the ship whilst he was on shore.^ Friday^ 14. Wind west, vble, calm. a.m. — Fresh breezes and cloudy weather. Sent the Master up the harbour to sound for a conveniant place to remove the ship for delivering the colonial stores, &c. At 30. jDast 9 he returnd, and reported good anchorage 3 or 4 miles further to the eastward. At 10, cleard hawsr. Sent on there a party of the Colonial Marines, also convicts, with Lieut. Johnson, to pitch some tents. They carried the equipage and live stock, p.m. — Light breezes with rain. At 30 past 1 unmoored ship and hove short on the small bower. Loosd the T. sail. At 15 past 2 weighd and made sail. At 30 past 3 light airs with rain. Found the tide too strong for the wind. Anchord in 13 fthms. with the small bower, west end of the long island, N.E. b. K, and the S.E. head of the enterance W. N., off the shore 1 mile & . Calm at 4. The carpenter reports 2 of the planks in the counter started. Caulkers caulking the poop waterways. At 7 in the morn Mr. White and self went on shore on the south side of the Bay, and walked far into the country. We see the kangaroos and some parretts, but could not kill any. We walkd to the watering place. The water through the casks was good, and the information from the 4 men that were there that it agreed with them. At 5 returnd on board. Saturday, 15. Wind E.S.E. a.m. — Light breezes, inclining to a calm. At 30 past 8 hove short on the f. bower. Loosd sails. Ocean transport under weigh. At 9, weighd and made sail. Sounded from 6 to 18 fthms. At 15 past 10 crossd the shoal north of Point in 4 fthnis. At 30 past 10 anchord in 7 fthms. ; fine sand. At noon, strong breezes and cloudy ; the Ocean at anchor east of us, 1 mile distance. Employd sounding [sending] the colonial stores on shore. Where we lay we can see the camp, distance from us 4^ miles, p.m. — ^At 30 past 3 moord ship with the iDCst bower to the westward, the camp bearing S.E. S., the entrance of the port west, and Seals Beach open, and Arthers Seat E. N. Nearest distance off shore 1^ mile in 5 fathms water. Employd fitting the launch for surveying the harbour. Sunday, 16. Wind S.E. a.m. — Moderate and clear weather. At 30 past 8 sent the launch with the first Lieut., Mr. Tuckey, attended by 2 ^ civil officers, Mr. Harris, Mr. Collins, and Mr. Gammon, of the colony, and a 6 oard cutter, victuald for 8 days, to survey the Bay from 1 Note. — From this time Mr. Knopwood seems to have had some difBculty to accommo- date himself to the seasons of this hemisphere, and frequently adopt the spring and summer months of the north for the spring and summer ones of Australia ; hut he has generally run his pen through them, though not always ; but wherever he has left the errors standing I shall not follow him. — [C] - This figure is exactly copied. It appears to have been 3 originally, but 2 is written ovtr it very plainly. — [C]