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 csrs o Avsrn.zaA. 189 noticed by Mr. Roe in an E.b.S. direction from the mastshead at twenty minutes before one o'clock, but, if the position assigned to it by the French is correct, we had passed it long before that time. At six o'clock Kok's Island, the small rky islet that lies off the north end of Bernlet's Island, bore N. 83 � distant sevn miles. The following morning at daylight the land r. was seen in the N.E., and at half-past eight o'clock we resumed our course, and passed Cape ' Cuvier, a reddish-coloured rocky bluff that pre. sents a precipitous face to the sea. The coast thence takes a N.b.E. direction; it is low and sandy, and fronted by a sandy beach, occasi- onally interrupted by projecting rocky points; those parts where patches of bare sand were no- ticed, are marked upon the chart. At one o'clk we were near a low sandy pro- jection, round which the coast extends to the F_,.N.E., and forms a shallow bay. This proj ec- tion was called after Sir Robert Townsend Far- quhar, Bart., the late Governor of the Mauritias. Farther on, in latitude '23 � 30", is a pro- jection which, at Mr. Cunningham's request, was called aher Mr. William Anderson, of the Apothecari. 'es' garden at Chelsea. The coast to the northward of Point Anderson is higher than to the southward, and fails back to the .N,E.,

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