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 362 carried away by the wind, break short without splintering.

We passed Capes Gloucester and Upstart during the night and early part of the next morning. Between the latter cape and the low projection of Cape Bowling-green, we experienced an in-draught of three quartes of a knot per hour. This also oecurred last year; and it should be guarded against by ships passing by: for the land about the latter cape is so low that it cannot be seen at night.

From the period of cur entering among the Northumberland Islands, the weather, although fine, had been more than usually hazy; the wind, during the day, blew moderately from S.b.E. and South, and veered towards night, to S.E.b.E. and E.S.E.; but, when we passed Cape Cleveland, it blew a fresh breeze, and was so very hazy, that we could not take advantage of our vicinity to the coast by verifying or improving any part of our former survey, except the outer or seaward side of the Palm Island Group, near which we passed in the evening.

The next morning we were off the southernmost Barnard's Island, and, as the coast between Double Point and Fitzroy Island had not been satisfactorily laid down on the previous