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 '14 FRVY OP THE INTERTROPICAL preduit de'ce genre; mais notre colnmnndallt, sans s'inquiter d'un e ph'enomkte qui se rattache cependant d'une m-re essentielle A la ggra- phie de cette portion de la Nouelle Hollande, donna l'ordre de poursuivre notre route*." The rise of the tide was found by the French officer who landed upon it, to be at 1 .east twenty- five feet, which fact of itself was s,,mcient to have induced us to exml-e into the cause of so un- usual' a circ-mtance; for the greatest rise that we had hitherto found was not more than eight or nine feet. The hills at the back of this group of islands, which Commodore Baudin called L'i,'� ,'r, recede from the coast in the shape of an amphitheatre, which made me suppose that the coast trended in and formed a deep bay; but this' still remains to be ascertained, and we quitted the place with much regret: for it unquestionably presented a far more interesting feature than any part that we had previously seen. On our passage to the north coast, we saw the Imperieuse and Clerke's Shoals, and also dis- covered a third, the Mermaid's. On the north coast, we found some deep bays, and excellent ports, and at the bottom of the great Digitized , Goog[e
 * Peron Voyage de D&ouverte aux Terres Australe, Vol. !.

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