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 coms o USRALA. 275 deep opening: this projection, o aeoount of a re- .s. markable tree standing above the buehes near to Sept. 4. its extremity, was called Tree Point. At this anchorage the tide rose eighteen feet, and ran' nearly at the rate of two miles per hour. The next morning,. at daybreak, when the land became visible, Captain Baudin'.Cape Dombey .was recognised, bearing S. 83 �Between Capes Ford. and Dombey, the coast is higher than usual, and thickly wooded to the verge of the cliffs, which preserve the same deep red co- lout with those more to the northward; under them a sandy beach uninterruptedly lines the coast. The bottom,. at from three to five miles distance, is rather irregular, and varies in its depth between seven arid a half and ten fathoms. An opening in the land is laid down near Cape Domby in the French charts, before which are .placed the Barthelemy Islands, which certainly do not exist, and it was not until after-the haze of the day cleared up, that two detached quad- rilateral shaped hills .were seen over the low land; and, as these at a distance would assume exactly the figure and appearance of islands, they must have been the cause of the mistake; I have therefore called them (by altering the no- menclature as little as possible). the Barthelemy .Hills,

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