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 28 SURVEY' OF THE ITERTROPICAL ism was named he Admiralty Gulf, we haye given Oct.--i. positions to at least tbrty islands or islets. Having now emerged from the archipelago of islands which front this part of the north-west oast, we sei.ed the opportunity of taking leave of it for the present, and dirtted our course for Timor. At 4h. 19' p.m., when the centre of Cassini Island bore S. 4 � W., distance 6' 8" by survey, sights for the chronometers mad the centre of the island in 125 � 22", which is ' 32" to the eastward of the longitude assigned . to its centre in M. de Freycinet's chart. so. On the 20th, in the evening, a/ter a succes- sion of damp weather, with squalls of thunder, lightning, and rain, and variable baffling winds, a fresh breeze set in from E.S.E. At six o'clock s. the next morning, it settled in the S.E. with heavy rain, thunder, and lightning, and after- wards the weather cleared up. As soon as day dawned, sail was made to the N.W., and be. fore noon we hauled up N.N.W. to allow for a westerly current; at two p.m. the weather clouded in, and was followed by squalls of wind and rain from the N.E, which, a/ter passing over us, returned again from the westward with more rain but less wind. =. At daylight (22d), we saw the Island of Rottee, but instead of being, according to our account,

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