His return bringing a favourable report, the cutter was anchored in three fathoms, at about one mile from the extremity of the Cape, bearing North 60 1/2 degrees East.
We arrived off the south head of Endeavour River early in the afternoon, and anchored close to it in three fathoms, with the outer point bearing South-East.
Sooner however than was expected the water shoaled to three fathoms; and before it was possible to avoid it the vessel struck: the helm was put up, but she continued to beat on a hard sandy bottom as her head paid off.
In the afternoon we anchored in three fathoms, about a quarter of a mile from the south point of Corio Harbour.
We crossed the flat extending four miles North-West from that point, in from two to three fathomsat low-water; the soundings afterwards varied from nine to eleven fathoms with a soft, muddy sand bottom.
I first stretched over to within two miles of the eastern, shore, and tacked in fifty-three fathoms water.
In this situation we had seventy-three fathoms water, over a muddy bottom, and about a league farther off found ninety fathoms.
I went, accompanied by some of the officers, to view the head of it, and we found that it was sheltered from all winds, with a depth of water from even to three fathoms over a muddy bottom.
Charmian put the wheel down, Martin stopped the engine, and the Snark rounded to and the anchor rumbled down in three fathoms.
For the first three miles the soundings did not show less than three fathoms, with an even sandy bottom, the last mile shoaling gradually to the beach; the landing being easily effected, as there now was but little surf.
About the middle of the bay, right out from the third cove, lieth a sand, near about which there are not above two or three fathoms, but in most other parts eight or ten close in shore.
We went over the end of it in three fathoms; but if you keep in ten or twelve fathoms, you will always be safe.
Between these two ranges of islands we only obtained one cast of the lead which gave us thirty-three fathoms on a coral bottom.
The edge of the flatts (in three fathoms) is determined by many intersections, so that its extent is pretty nearly ascertained.
It is remarkable that so much snow and ice as there is on the river, and which is from two to three fathoms thick, is all melted in less than twelve days.
Beyond this bar the water gradually deepened to three fathoms; and a favourable breeze springing up, we set the sail, and steered for the outer point of land in sight.
In the afternoon we continued to descend the same channel, which has a smooth and moderately rapid current, and a general depth of two or three fathoms.
The continuance and increase of the favourable wind urged us to make all possible despatch, and at three in the morning of the 9th again embarking, we kept in three fathoms water at the distance of two miles from the land.
Embarking at four o'clock in the morning of the 19th, we rowed along the coast close to the beach, in from two to three fathoms water.
But the Beagle's present situation I deemed by far the most perilous to which she had been exposed: her three anchors were down in twenty-three fathoms of water, on a bad bottom of sand, with patches of rock.
In the afternoon we weighed anchor and warped into a berth in the inner harbour, where we moored in three fathoms.
We ran past the breakers at the distance of about a mile, having rocky soundings, from thirty to twenty-three fathoms.
A quarter of a mile in, we sounded a second time, and had forty-three fathoms.
The Curlew" went in leisurely to three hundred yards of the foot of the island, where we found thirty-three fathoms, and hove to within a hundred yards of the ledges of the island on the east side.
The wind had died out, and they had dropped the anchor in forty-three fathoms.
Dropping it out of the stern, we ran out a hundred and seventy-three fathoms before it slacked.
Piritu Islands, inthree fathoms water, the thermometer was only 24.
There are from one to three fathoms water on this shoal, while just beyond its edges there are eighteen, thirty, and even thirty-eight.
We cast the lead, and found from thirty-six to forty-three fathoms on a bottom of very fine green clay.
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