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 �COAT-OF AUFFRAIJA. 'l long: it is .separated from the real 'Cape by a s. . Strait, a mile.and a half wide. June M. On passing round Gloucester Island, we saw Holbome.Island, which Captain Cook discovered and named. We then hauled'into Edgecumbe Bay,. but -as the night was, advancing had .not.time to ,explore its shores. We therefore -passed round Middle Island, which had escaped Captain Cook's observation, and steered to the N.W., parallel with the shore of the main, which appeared to be very, low. The next morn- .ing. we were steering towards Mount Upstart, . and, at noon, passed within two miles of its extremity. Behind the Mount, which rises with ro. mnrkable abruptness from the low land in its rear, are two prominent hills; the highest of. which, Mount Abbott, has a peaked summit; the irre- gular and mountainous appearance of the range upon which this Mount stands, and a very evident �break in the hills on its western side, would lead one to suspect the existence of a river, of which' the bay on the western side of the Mount may be �the mouth. There is also a bay on the eastern side of Mount Upstart, which also has a rive.- like appearance. In fact, it is not at all certain whether Mount Upstart may _not be an island, and the:bay behind it the mouth of a considerable stream.

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