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 . was that, in getting under weigh, the cutter might sel,.ss. cast with her head in.'shore, when we shouhi eertalrtly have been thrown UlVOn the bank; our fer, however, un this point were hap10ily groundlesa, and our course being unim we made quick way towards Lcwsse Ialand, wifich was passed at daylight. Having now cleared this extraordinary inlet, which was named Cambridge Gulf, in bano c/His Royal Highness the Viceroy of Hanover, we bore up along shore to the westwarl, c/ently near to it to have perceived any openin S that might exist, and to make such remarks as were necessary for is delineation. At sun we were off Cape St. Lambert of the French, and their Mount Casuarina was also seen. M. de Freycinet's description of the hill is very correct, but, at the distance which we were, it was visible when it bore between South and W. S.W.; for the land, in that bearlog, intervened and con- cealed it. Large /ires were burning three or four miles in-land. At sunset we hauled of s0. shore for the night; and the next momig saw Mount Casuarin again beating south; its lati- tude was found to be 14' 9.3' 15", nd its lon- gitude 127 � 50" East of Greenwich, which 8' 10" to the westward of the situation that Fmm'h trove aresigned to it.

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