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 : ]80 sultv:KY  OIrTHE ' INt?ROPXCAI. ls. 'appears .to be productive and wooled; for-al- '.ay . though the hills-are steep and rather precipitous, �'yet their.verdant and agreeable appearance au- gurs favamtbly:for the fertility of the valleys be- .tween them. 'Lightswinds. retarded our 'progress along the . 'coast.until.the.evening of the 9.th, when the wind freshened. up from the westward and, by the fol- lowing sunset, we were abreast of Cape More- . totr;=the' following morning part of the .sandy peninsula' .was in sight; but we did not pass s. round Breaksea Spit until the next day. We �then' steered across Hervey's Bay towards- Bus-
 * tard 'Bay,'and passed a small island that was

discovered by the:ship Lady El!Jot in 1816,. and that hod not yet [a'place. upon the chart.of this .part of the coast*. . The-next day, at' noon, we were off Bustard Bay, mid passed half a mile without the. dry rock, whicklies off its'north end. The course was now directed for Gatcombe Head of Port Curtis, whither it had become neees- �sary to proceed, to repair some little damage that we had met with during the preceding night; as we proceeded, a shoal opening presented itseft round the north head of Bustard Bay, probablycommuni- caring with the inundated lands at the back: �I Appendix A. Part IL

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