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 19'2 SltVEV oF 'THE INTeRTROPICAL lau. signed to it on our first voyage was 114 �47"; Jaa. o. the mean of the two, 114 �2", may therefore be considered its true situation. From the above observation for the latitude of the North-West Cape agreeing nearly with those of our former. voyage, I was induced to think that there might be some land more to the northward, that the French saw and took for the cape; for they have placed it in 21 � 7" S., which is nearly 10' too northerly. Captain Horsburgh, in the supplement to his Directory, notices some islands seen by the San Antonio in 1818, called Piddington's Islands, that are said to .lie in the latitude of 21 �, but after steering seventeen miles to the N.E. from the above situation, without seeing any thing like land, there remained no doubt in my mind that the French must have been deceived, and that Piddington's Islands are some of the low, sandy islets to the eastward of Muiron Island. M. Having steered through. the night on a north- east course, Barrow's Island came in sight the next morning, when it was about five leagues off; at eight o'clock it bore between S. 27 � and N. 87 �From noon to three p.m. we had calm, dull, and clOudy weather; and, although the thermometer did not range higher than the heat was extremely oppressive, and occa-

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