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 COAgrS o traALIA. ]03 At thim anchorage we perceived very li ttle rise and fall of tide, and the flood and ebb both set to the northward; this was also the case at our anchorage within the Laceperle Islands. At four o'clock the next morning a strong south-easterly breeze sprang up, and moderated again bdore we weighed; but no sooner were we under sail than it freshened again, and, at half. past five o'clock, blew so strong as to oblige our double ree the topsails, which had not been done for many weeks before. At noon the w/rid fell, and was very calm, at which time our latitude ob- served was 17 � 88". The highest part of the land bore N. ?0it � south of which a sandy pe/nt, supposed to be Captain Baudin's Cape Boileau, bore S. 87 � and a smoke, a little to the northward of the mast.head ex- treme, bearing S. 4//� must be upon the land in the neighbourhood of Cape Latrei]le. Soon after noon the breeze veered round by South to W.S.W., and enabled us to make some progress; at sunset we again anchored in thir- teen fathoms, soft sand, at six miles from a sandy projection of the main, which we aP, er- wards found to be the land called by Captain Bau,,!in, Oantheaume Island; the name has there.  been given to the point, for there was no appeatanoe of its being insulated. It boars a

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