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 dehyed very much; oF entireIF preyented'fm Thu it w. with us on tis (by; soon aftor we wel it .fell calm, and tho de,  tm rsp/dly t9 the sotthwMxl ovev. !y ground, .era?led us close to a red of. drY. rks to th northward of Foul Point, without our being abl .to ayoid it, At a little before five o'clock the. flood.tide was nearly exponded, an( obl/ged  to drop the cha/.t. bled anchor t the distance .d three miles from Foul Point, upon a .bottonl of rotten yellow-.colpurd rock**.. that crumbli away upon being touched, but from the noise that the chain nmdo/n dragg/p over the ground, there was reason to apprehend it wm very rocky and consequently great fears were entertained for the. safety of our anchor. Our s/tmtion was in .the outer pp. rt of a by, the SOuthern head o� which bore S. � arid which, from the loss and perplexity we met with in it, was afterwards called Disaster Bay, and its south extreme, off which is a small rocky island, was named 11epulse Point. During the. a/ternoon We had' .another instan/ o� mlragc, which proved useful.so far that it.h1.  idacared t us the trend of tl lpad to the.s9th- .tward,. in. which direct/o.' n._.not. hi%*. had pr. v.y b0a n -it PPI. tcbo .�qry low

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