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 dually drew us out of the inanenee of the ,b. damp, unwholesome weather we solately experi- enced. Our course was held to the northward of Rowley'z Shoals, which upon passing, we forrod a stron current setting towards them, at he rate of one mile an hour. This indraught /ncreases the danger of navigating near this part, but ! do not recollect having experienced any when we passed them in June, 1515. The oarrent, therefore, that we felt may be only of temporary duration, and probably caused by the ariable state of the wind. Between the PAth of February and the 8rd of reb. March we had light and variable winds from Ms. all dir.ections, but, being more frequent from the eastward than from any other point of the com- pass, I became reconciled to the step I had ken of leaving the coast, since .it would not have been possible to have reached Port George the Fourth The thermometer now ranged between 87 �nd 89% and the wether was consequently ex- tremely oppressive and sultry. On the $rd at s-it. gitude 111 �15", when a breeze sprang up of the trade, which blew steadily between S.S.F,.
 * noon we were in latitude 18 � 18", and lon-

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