with our nets; eſpecially when the eaſt and ſouth-eaſt winds drove them into the bay.
Van Diemen's land was diſcovered by Taſman in the month of November, 1642. When Captain Cook anchored here four years after Furneaux, in the year 1777, he thought himſelf the third European navigator who had been upon this coaſt. Cook did not know at that time that Captain Marion, after having remained here for ſome time, ſailed from thence on the 10th of March, 1772. The natives conducted themſelves in a very different manner to theſe two navigators. Poſſibly the gentleneſs with which they behaved to Captain Cook, might be an effect of their terror for European fire-arms, of which they had received an idea from Marion's having been under the neceſſity of uſing them againſt them.
The place of our obſervatory, ſituated near the entrance of the harbour to the right of the veſſels, was 43° 32′ 24″ S. lat. 144° 46′ E. long.
The variation of the magnetic needle was 7° 39′ 32″ E.
The inclination of a flat needle was 70° 30′.
The tides flowed only once a day. The time of high water in the harbour at full and change days, was between nine and twelve o'clock, the water riſing about ſix feet perpendicular height. The tides were very much influenced by the winds,
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