Author: Batman, John,
Title: Journal, manuscript
Date: 10 May-11 June 1835.
Accession Number: MS13181
Transcript Number: pp0016-030-0
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26

when we left - we Anchored
about 12 to day - I went on
shore and into a large
Cave which I measured
and was 180 feet from
the farther end to the entrance
about 40 feet wide and
in the center about 40
high I never met with
so large a Cave before
we caught a good many
fish - saw the Edward
Schooner at some
distance come down
here to take shells to
Circular Head for lime
now six Oclock the
wind fair again they
the Captain is just getting
the Vessel under way
again - for Port Phillip
I hope we may have a
good run during the

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