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 l.' shipwik, for ihe' riiht was very dark, aitd hei /ta--l distane did not exceed that when she Was brought up by veering cable. As it Was, we were So neat' to the rocks, that in making prepa- rations to weigh, we had every reason to expect [t leas the loss of our anchor. We succeeded, " however, in heaving short, and hoisting the sails without starting it; but it soort after tripped, and the cutter at the satire time casti .ng the Wrong way; I was on the pent of ordering the cable to be cut from the bows when the wind so favoured us as to enable the' cutter to weather the reef; all sail was instantly made and happily we succeeded both in clearing the reef, which. we passed at the distance of a cabls' length, and aving our anchor, which was. quickly hove up and secured. After escaping tMs danger, our course was directed to pass outside of Noble Island, in our way to which four small wooded isles were in-shore of our track, and named, at Mr. Roe's request, atler Captain Sir Christopher Cole, K.C.B. -Between this group and Noble Island two dry sands were observed. Cape Bowen, so named by Lieutenant Jeeys, is a remarkable projection in the hills, but nt on the coast, for it rather forms a bay. To the northward of it the hills fall back with some apPeance of a rivulet, but the sandy beach was traced from the

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