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 .___. (h the 17th We left the bay and passed found. .., l.. the north end of Magnetical Island. Several mtives. were seen on a sandy beach at the north end, where deep gullies indicated the presence of fresh water. Our course was then directed acroas Halifax Bay towards the Pm Islands, passing inside a small rocky islet marked, i, on the chart, p. nd another of larger size, k. In a S.b.E. diree* tion from these islands is an opening in the land round which the sea was observed to trend; it was supposed to communicate with the water seen from the heights of Cape Cleveland over the .hind at the bottom of the bay  and it is lrobable, from the mist which this morni_ng oceu- pied a considerable space of the low land fronting the hills, that a large body of water exists there. Calms and light airs detained us until two o'clock, when a resh breeze sprung up from the eastward, to which we made sail, but the glare of the sun, shining in the direction of our course, obliged our hau!ing up to avoid the risk of run- ning thus "dark with excess of bright" upon any rocks or shoals that might be in our way: and, as the-low coast line of this part of the bay was distinctly traced, we steered towards the island marked 9, near which the cutter was anchored, at eight o'clock, in eleven fathoms' mud. is. At eight o'clock the following morning we got

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