The depth continued regular, at two and a half fathoms, and the width two hundred yards.
Finding not less than four and a half fathoms, we stood in, Mount Fairfax bearing east.
At noon on the 23rd, we entered Port Phillip, and ran up through the West Channel in three and three and a half fathoms.
We anchored, at half past eight, in six and a half fathoms, and I ran below to find how our wounded messmate had borne the day.
In the afternoon of the 30th we anchored in the bay of St Augustine, in six and a half fathoms on coarse gravel.
The 16th we weighed in the morning, and stood for Mokha, where we came to anchor in five and a half fathoms.
Lackee, between which and the point is only one and a half fathoms water, according to report.
The ship lay in five and a half fathoms water, and not less than fifteen miles from Packnam, which is situated about two miles from the mouth of the river Menam: Packnam means the river's mouth or embochure.
Sail was then shortened to maintain our position until daylight; but in the course of three hours, a strong current running out of the river, had forced us into four and a half fathoms of water, on the edge of the English bank.
On the following day we ran through part of Whitsunday Passage, so named by Cook, and anchored in Port Molle, in seven and a half fathoms, a quarter of a mile off shore.
At ten o'clock in the morning, we anchored in Table Bay, in seven and a half fathoms, and moored a cable each way.
One mile off shore the shoal soundings continued with two and a half fathoms until it bore South 59 degrees West (magnetic) when the depth was three, and three and a half fathoms.
A spit of sand was passed over with only two and a half fathoms on it when the summit of Mount Cook bore South 66 degrees West (magnetic) and the outer extreme of Point Monkhouse South 18 degrees West (magnetic).
The course was then directed to the eastward, and having reached within four miles of the coast, the depth of water was only two and a half fathoms.
It then began to decrease; and, at the furthest part we reached the depth at high water was two and a half fathoms.
One boat was then hoisted out to sound, and found two and a half fathoms forward, and about three and a half fathoms aft, having six fathoms a little on the starboard quarter.
Most of the channels between the islands were deep, but to-day we tried one which had not more than five and a half fathoms.
When we had got well among the islands it fell calm, and we anchored in eight and a half fathoms.
The depth of water when the land first came in sight, was generally five fathoms; at some places only four fathoms, and at the very bottom of the Gulf, it could not be discerned till in three and a half fathoms.
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