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 COAT O AUTIA/A.  Sir Roger Curtis Island, and the next day cleared the strait. Nov. On the 2d we were o/ Mount Dromedary; and De the wind blew strong from the East, the weather assuming a threatening appearance, The next day we passed the hoads of Jervis Bay, at the a distance of three or four leagues, and the course was altered to North and N.b.W. parallel to the coast. At noon an indigerent observation for the latitude, and a sight of the land, which for a few minute. was visible through the squalls, shewed that our situation was very much nearer to the shore than we had expected, a circum- stance that was attributed to a current setting into the bight to the northward of Jervis Bay. The wind from the eastward was light and bang, and this, added to the critical situation we were in, made mo very anxious to obtain an ofllng before night, for there was every appear- anco of a gale from the eastward. Atr two or three squalls a breeze sprung up from the E.S.E. with heavy rain, and a N.N.E. course was steered, which should have taken us wide of the coast: having run thirty-seven miles on that course, we steered N.b.E. four miles, and then N.W., that we might not be more than twenty miles from the shore in the morning, and stciently near to see the light-house on the �o,g,t,zeo by Goog[�

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