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 on a lxu'allel direction with the. coast, and ran forty-five miles,. passing the different 'projections of the beach at the distance of four or five miles, ' and sounding in between nineteen and twenty- 'five fathoms. At four o'clock we were abreast of a bare sandy point, which. appeared to be the north bead of Jurion Bay, 'in which-two rocky islets were seen, fronted by reefs, on which the sea in 'many parts was breaking violently. To the. southward of the point, the coast hills are rather high, and principally formed of very white snd, bearing.a strong resemblance, from the absence of .vegetables, to hills covered with snow. Here and there, however, a few shrubs, partially concealed the sand, and gave a variety to the scene which was dismally" liste." The .country to the northward bears a different cha- racter; the shore is very low 'and sandy, and continues so for some distance in the iuterior, towards the base of a range of tolerably.elevated _hii!, on which the French have placed three re- markable "Ilons," but these, perhaps, from our being too close in-shore, we did not discover. This range extends in a N.b.W. and S.b.E. direction, and appears to be rocky. In the mid. die groun d some trees were noticed, and vege- tation appeared to be more abundant than in the space between the bare sandy point and Cape

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