Flinders Journal – 25 September

Saturday 25 September, 1802 Return to Upper Head "On landing at the tents, I found, to my no less surprise than regret, that the time keepers had again been let down... This fresh difficulty was very embarassing. To go away for Torres Strait and the Gulf of Carpentaria without good rates, was to cripple the accuracy of all our longitudes... (however) the letting down did not appear to have produced any material alteration..." (P.70)

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