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 ' was* so erY light and leewaty, t_ht it woul ,tea. o. have been running a great risk to appr t! land, as she then was. But in titis we were dis appointed, for ater an intervat of (tmm mtlt weather, and a severe thunder-storm,' a gale wind set in'from the 8.r., during which the[ barcnneter fell as low as .86 inches. -Th gale then,veered graduy round to the N.W, and obliged Us to m,e sail of tim ovast, anct by tha time it moderated, we were so far to leeward of Dampier's Archipelto, timt I was constrained 'to alter my plan, and give up tim idea ot taking ballast on board.. I therefore de termined upon making Eowley's Shoals, for th purpose of fixing their position with greater reotness, and examining the extent of the bight round ape Levclue, which we were  to leave. unexplored during. the earlier ps of this voyage. rob. 4. The first of these objects was etfeeted on 4th; on which day we passed rotrod the south end of the Imperieuse (the westernmost) $hol; which we now found to extend nearly four miles more to the southwaui than had been mmpectsd in 1818, at which period we steered round its north end.. - e .north.east end  the teef n=ttt ten 

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