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 3 APPgNDIX A. ground. At the latter.end of February the westerly wimts Sect. iV. die away, and are sueceeded by light, bal!lin, easterly. N. Wt winds, with damp,' unwholesome weather, and attended cionally by heavy squalls of wind and rain. If a ship is detalni late in the easterly mollsoon, and wishes to get to h westward, she will find the wind more regular and strong. from the eastward in the neighbeuro hood of Timor, where the easterly monsoon lasts until the first or second week in November: in the months of Sep- tember and October, to the southward of the parallel of 12 �the winds are almost constant from S.W. The currents are stronger according to the regularity and strength of the wind, and generally set at the rate of one or one knot and a half. The tides in this part of the coast are noticed in the description of the pieces where they were observed. High water at full and change takes place at The anchorage o/ Vansittart Bay at. 9  15' In Montu Sound at ...... 1 00 In Careening Bay at ....... 12 00 In Prince Regent's River at .... 1 20 The rise of the tide, to the westward of Cape Van Diemen, and particularly to the westward of Cape Bougainvi!le, peared radually to increase: the greatest that we expe- rienced was in the vicinity of Buecancer's Archipelago; and at the anchorage in Camden Bay the tide rose thirty-seven feet; occasioned probably by the intersected nature of the- coast. The varitlon in this interval is almost too trifling to be noticed for the purposes of common navigation. Between Capes Londonderry and Van Diemen it varies between 4 � 1 �t. Between the former and Careening Bay it was between 1 � 1 �t; at Careening Bay the mean of the observations gave o West; but to the westward of

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