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 ths'miSqhc Would lave'been tmly_dmsd.' ful; the current, or =luics, .Was s - past he. ',  gt the rate .of eight cr nine knot=, and the water being conwed by t interventiom fell. least six or ieea feet; at the moment, how- ever, when 'we Were .ulxm th point .of being. lashed to pieces, a sudden breeze providem/y. sirerag up, and, fdling our sIs, %11ed the ssl 'forward for  .or. four yls was enough, but only just suffint, for the ler was not more the_n_ S/x yar from tha rock.. 1% sooner .had we  this  danger  the breeze feJl again, and .was succeeded. by 'a dead. cahn; the tide, however,  o carry.us o with a graduy decreasing e.ngth, mzt/l. one o'clo,' when we felt very little eife from it. -: From the spot we had now reached, the  fim Cape Levee appeared to trend to tha /hWard, but was not v/sible beyend the bear. ig ef S.W.  there wae, however,. some land of being an i!_nd; it was afteiwards'fou to /red was subsoquently callt a/er my fr/emi Mr; Curingha, to whose indefgble zeal th Sden world is cons/derabiy/de

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