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 �140 SRVEY OF THE IERTROPAL s& !fore she was purchased by the government, June in revenge for his having lost his employment. 6-a ( the ltb we mpleted ever thing, and . mbarlced cr stk, and the next morn� light we left the by, and, passing Found the islands of Samow and Rottee, steered S.W.b.S. (which was as close to the wind as we could steer to make a direct course) across the sea, which might, with some degree of propriety, be called the Great Australian Strait; but this course was too westerly to admit of'our reaching the coast so far to the westward as.was wished. On the 1 we passed over a coral bank, with ,9. twenty-six fathoms, in latitude 19'30', and longi- tude 116 �30". The thermometer now ranged no higher than 76 �d obliged us to resume our'warmer At eight o'clock the next'morning land was seen bearing S.W.b.W., and proved to be laid down by Captain Baudin, to the southward of the Montebello Islands; one of which, Tri- mouille Island, was also' visible in the N.W. We bore up at noon, intending to pass round the south end of the land, seen in W.S.W.; but atr running about five miles further the land proved to be an island, and was called ater John Barrow, esq., one of the Secretaries of the Admi-

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