From its likeness, as above mentioned, to a snapper's head, I named it Snapper Island.* (* The Phillip Island of Bass which even at that time was called Phillip Island, a name it is still known by.

Its eastern extremity resembled the head of a snapper and was known as Snapper Head.

Bass himself had, in discovering the Strait, noticed the resemblance.) It falls in a high clay bluff down to the water's edge.

The small islands lying off it were covered with seals, numbers of which, on our approach, precipitated themselves into the sea, covering the passage, while others remained on the rocks making a very disagreeable noise, something like the grunting of pigs.

They were of a large size, many of them being nearly equal to a bullock.