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 ) SURVEY OF THE INTRTROPICAL lsio. ing S.S.E., and a point five or six miles south see's0. of Cape Hay, which bore N.E.b.E. The coast is sandy; behind it there appeared a good deal, of small stunted timber, and beyond this the range of Mount Goodwin was yisible. Round Point Pearce the land trends in a S. 59- � direction, and forms a very deep indenture: on approaching this point, we observed an exten- sive dry reef, and breakers projecting from it to a considerable distance. No land was seen. to the southward of south. east, but the hazy state of the weather prevented our seeing fax, espe- cially land which is so low as to be scarcely dis- tinguishable beyond the distance of three or four leagues. As we approached Point Pearce, the soundings were very irregular, and generally upon a rocky bottom. We passed many rip- pl/ngs, occasioned by the tide setting round the point, and meeting the other tide from the south- ward. As these eddies were driving us towards the shore, we steered off south-west. At six o'clock, p.m., Point Pearce bore N. 65 � eleven miles, and in a line with the hills about Mount Goodwin. Between this time and noon, the sound- ings were between nine and thirty.two fathoms, upon a rocky bottom. At sunset we were in fourteen fathoms, and, during the night, continued sounding on a rock bottom, between ten and fourteen fathoms. Digitized , Goog[e

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