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  moderate heit, yeF leyel, nnd cering no ,particular mark that could be set with.any Jl, chance of recognition to obtain a cross bearing. An.there-is every r-_ to bed/eye that this.part of the coast is what was taken by former. navi- gators for Cloates Island*,' I have named southernmost point of. the high land Point Cloates. At noon we were in latitude 21 � 5" having exper/eneed a current of twenty-three miles to the north since yestezday at noon. The northern extreme, Viaming's Head, bore N.Fb.E.E., and the south extreme S. 7 � and in the bearing of between S, 39 �82  E., the land is higher than in other parts, and dw. llnen very gradually towals the extrelze,  As the brig.approached the land, breakers were een to extend tl whole length of the shore, wlfich is fronted by a sandy beach: the land is of moderate height, but tle summit is tather more rugged than that to the southward, where the outline is peffoctly level. At he_F-past three :. o'clo V]nmlng Head bore south, six miles and three-quarters off: .at four o'clock the latitude, by the toOOh'S meridional altitude, was found to be 21  38' '27", at which time sights. Were .taken for the .chronometer, .which made the 1ongi. tttcle of. the'head: 114 �16": the situation as. ��e vol, is p. 44. .,

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