Strict attention to these directions and confidence in the chart, with a cautious lookout will, however, neutralize all the dangers that thick weather may produce in this navigation.
The tides and currents in this part are not of much consequence.

The rise of tide is trifling, the flood-tide sets to the North-West, but at a very slow rate.

In the neighbourhood of the reefs, the stream sometimes sets at the rate of a knot or in some cases at two knots, but for a small distance it is scarcely perceptible.

There appeared rather to be a gentle drain of current to the North-West.
HERVEY'S BAY and BUSTARD BAY have been already described by Captains Cook and Flinders.

We did not enter either, so that I have nothing to offer in addition to the valuable information of those navigators (Hawkesworth volume 3 page 113 and 117; and Flinders Introduction cci.