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New Holland (continued) with a few observations on the Currents and Tides upon the Coast, because I have men-tioned in the Course of this Journal that the latter hath some times set one way and some times a nother, which I shall endeavour to account for in the best manner I can. From the Latitude ^of32° or ^abovebeforedown to Sandy Cape in the Latitude of 24°..46' we constantly found a Current seting to the Southward at the rate of 10 or 15 Miles per day more or less according to the distance we were from the land, for it runs stronger in shore than in the offing: all this time I had not been able to satisfy my self whether the Flood Tide came from the Southward Eastward or Northward but judged it to come from the S.E. But the first time we Anchor'd upon the Coast, which was in the Latitude of 24°..30' and about 10 Leagues to the SE of Bustard Bay, we found there the Flood to come from the NW. On the Contrary 30 Leagues further to the NW, on the South side of Keppel Bay we found the Flood to come from the East, and at the northern part of the said Voyaging Accounts © Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 300, 2004 Published by South Seas To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook_remarks-093