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 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL the sea broke: we passed within the rock, carry. ing two and a quarter fathoms; and then hauled in for a point of ]and, called after my friend Captain G. H. Guion, R.N.; but not succeeding in finding anchorage under it, we bore away along the shore, and at night anchored off Point Turner. Between Points Guion and Turner is a deep but a rocky bay, at the bottom of which is an appearance of an opening lined with man. groves: to the westward of Point Turner is ano- ther bay, which circumstances did not then allow of our examining. From our anchorage the land was traced as far as N.W., and appeared to be an island separated from the main by a strait. The next day we passed through it, and anchored in a bay on the S.W. side of the, island, at about half. a-mile from the beach. The Strait was named Macquarie Strait, after the ]ate Major- General Lachlan Macquarie, who administered the government of New South Wales for a period of ne.arly twelve years. As the shores of the bay, in which we had anchored, appeared likely to afford both woo. and water, of which articles we were much in want, I was induced to take advantage of the oppertunity, and immediately made preparation to commence these occupations. In the evening a pit was dug for water, which oozed so fast into Digitized by Goog[c

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