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 thick gloomy weather, with the wind bevu' hvg previously hllm to .91, ro to 9.95 eompaeci the rin, but the wind was ready, and did not freshen or lull during the showers. On the 5th, at daylight, Goulburn Xalands we.rm son, and at nine o'clock we passed through strait that vides thom; our track lining half st mile more to the northward than that of last xear, we had more regular sounding. As soon as we anchored in South-West Bay, I sent on shore to examine our �ormor waterins- plac but-found that the stream lind failed. The parch up appea.,m. of the island shewed that the last hnd been an unusually.dry season; revery plaoe that, even in the month of. August, six weeks later, had before yielded large quan. titie9, as ,well as the lagoon behind the beach, which, fom the nature of the plants growing in' it, was conjectured to be a never-failing supply, was now dried up. The next morning the brig's boat went over to Sims Island with Mr. (mminham, and there found a small quantity of. water, sttient, ording to Mr. Hemmn.s's report, for a[l our. wants.  nxt too.ming (?th), ! m0l the, Digitized byGOOgle.

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