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 COASTS OF SUSTSL. 231 twenty miles, has also been su/fciently explored; but between the latter 'island and Port George the Fouh, a distance of five hundred and ten miles, it yet matns almost unknown. The land that is laid down is nothin more than an .archipelago of islands fronting the main land, the s/tuation o.f which is q=ite uncen. Our examinatiorm of these islands were carried on as �far as Cape Viilater, but between that and De- 10uch Island the coast has only been see,, by the French, who merely occasionally saw snmdl de* tached portions o( it. At present, however, all is amjectnre; but the space is of cons/derabte extent, and if them is an opening into the terior of New Holland, it'i in the v'/nity of this part. Off the Buccaneer's Archipelago, the tide are streog, and rise to the hei of thirty. six feet. Whatever may exist behind these islands, 'which we were prevente by our poverty in an, there at. cerinly some openings of impo,; md it is not at all improbable that there nmy be a communication at this part with the imerior Tim examimtioa d the western eoast was per. fomm dm/ng an almost continued gale of wind, o that we had no opportunity of making any  car. ,a obervn upo its shore. There

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