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 and at nine o'clock was very light from S.E. J'-- Dur the nist we made s!t tacks. At our o'clock in tim morning, (lath,) the latitu  by the moen's meridi altitate was 3 � IT', and soon .afieanis ]tlnest was in sight in t] N.N.E. At six o'ckk the sky was clouded, and the weather fimenod to be bad; all sa/l was mde off the hnd, as aplmces iaii a westerly gale: but af an interval of two !urs, duri which we had a. fresh braze from N.W.b.W., the weather cleared up, mcl we steered towarch Reftnest Island. The net momi  brig w ano Off the north-, east end  the i.] in thirt fathoms 8rS-, veily sand; and in the afternoon I went on shore, in a bay, on the east or leeward s/de, where we found the water smooth and the landing more practicable than upon the north side, where a trmendotta stlr  tel_ ling ill upon the .beach.. W disturbed a great many seals, but only Ifilled three; and were much disappointed in fmding that these animals were not of the ur SiXties, as in M. de Freycinet's account of the iai,n_& they are said to be; they were evidently the same description as those noticed at lGng George's Sound. The traces of a small iron.

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