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 cOASTS Oe AUSTBAL. 235 a larger island than is usual hereabout, which, as' lSlg. it will always be a stopping place for vessels July'is; bound up the coast, was named Night Island. At nine o'clock the following morning, after lg. a rainy disagreeable night, .we proceeded, and steered parallel with the shore. At half past eleven o'clock we were abreast and in-shore of Sherrard's Islets. Steering onwards we passed within-a low sandy island covered with bushes, and to seaward of a bare rock which lies a mile and a half south of Cape Direction; round this projection the land trends to the westward, and f/rms a deep bay with Cape WeYmOuth, which Lieutenant Jeffreys has named Lloyd's Bay. Upon rounding Cape WeYmouth, the land was observed to trehd deeply in to the westward; and, as the bay appeared to offer shelter, I was tempted to haul round Bligh's RestoratiOn Island for the purpose'of anchoring; but in this we Were pre- vented by the rocky quality of the bottom.' On our way to Forbes' Islands, which I wished to visit, our course was intercepted by the reef, which extended in a N.W. and S.E. direction; we steered along its western side, at a quarter of a mile from it, until five o'clock, when we hauled round its north end, and again steered for Forbes; Islands; but at sunset, being again impeded by a shoal that crossed our course, we anchored Digitized , Goog[e

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