Of Latitudes—

Captain Flinders in 1798 and 1803, gives	33°51'46.6"
De Freycinet in 1802	33°51'21"
Malaspina, Point Bennilong or Fort Macquarie, 1793	33°51'28'
Sir Thomas Brisbane, 1822	33°51'30"
Captain King, 1817	33°51'18"
Mean latitude of Fort Macquarie—	33°51'28"

Of Longitudes—

Captain Cook in 1770	151°11'32"
Hunter, 1788	151°19'43"
Lieut. Dawes	151°18'50"
Lieut. Bradley	151°20'38"
[2]Malaspina, 1793	151°17'53"
Broughton and Crossby	151°9'3"
Captain Flinders, 1795-6	151°17'12"
Captain Flinders, 1802	151°11'49"
De Freycinet, 1802	151°8'32"
M. D. Espinosa, 1793	151°12'45"
Sir Thomas Brisbane	151°15'32"
Rumker, 1822	151°17'30"
Captain King, 1817	151°17'29"
Mean of all—	151°15'16"

Captain P. P. King's paper on the Maritime Geography of Australia which is given in Baron Field's "Geographical Memoirs," was read 2nd October, 1822, before the Philosophical Society of Australia. It gives a short note of Flinders' and Oxley's discoveries, and then a narrative of his own in continuation of the foregoing. He mentions, (p. 285), that the spring tides rise thirty feet at Prince Regent's River, and sometimes ran at seven knots. He also mentions the general productions of intertropical Australia and the natives of New Holland.

In the "Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia," (Vol. 1, p. 349), Capt. King mentions that the southerly current on the coast had set the vessel one hundred and fifty miles south during the storm, and for twenty-four hours at the rate of three miles per hour. He also gives details of winds, weather and currents on the coast of Australia, variation and dip of the magnetic needle of nine places on shore, and at fourteen places at sea; with the geographical positions of a number of points in his survey. (p. 404.)

In the Royal Astronomical Society's Notices there are eight papers by Captain P. P. King. Four refer to observations of comets, amongst others, the Great Comet of 1843; one to an occultation of Jupiter and his Satellites; another to a lunar eclipse; another to a transit of Mercury; and the last to a solar eclipse,

When the present Sydney Observatory was talked about, Admiral King was the adviser of the Government as to where it should be placed. (See Votes and Proceedings, N.S. Wales, 1852.) For nearly all the facts in this account of Admiral King's work in Australia I am indebted to the Honorable P. G. King, M.L.C.

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