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 vitecl a particular investigation, on.account of the m. exposed nature of the coast, and the strength of s. . the tides, which were now near the springs: upon every. consideration, therefore, it was not �deemed prudent to rely any longer upon the good fortune that had hitherto so often, attend us in our dltalties. Accordingly after weigh- ,. ing, we steered off by the wind, and directed our course for Mauritins. On the 22d. September at daylight, aier a Sept. passage of twenty-five days, we saw Roderigues, five or six leagues to the northward. In the evening, a fresh gale sprung up from the south- ward, and we experienced very bad weather: at noon of the 24th, by our calculation, we were  seventy-three miles due East from the north end of Mauritins, and, having the day before expe- riencod a westerly current of one mile per hour, we bwught ta at sunset for the night, from the fear of getting too near tho shore. . At daylight the following' morning, being by z. the reckoning only thirty.four miles to the east- ward of the north-end of the island, we bore up for it; but the land, being enveloped in clouds, was not seen until noon; we then found ourselves off the south-east end, instead of the north point; kaving been set to. the southward since yester- 'day noon at the..rate of three-quarters. of a mile

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