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 on account of the deceptious appearance of the tsst. land; indeed. the strait which we discovered A. I. leading to sea, was not' seen until we were within two hundred yards of it,. and would also have escaped o. observation, had not the channel been so direct, that the sea horizon was exposed to our view. At.the bottom of this arm are two deep bays,. which were partially but-sufficiently examined. In most parts of Mun ter Water there is good anchorage, amongst several sm11 rocky.islands, on one of which we landed, and climbed its summit, but saw. nothing to repay us for the trouble or the danger of the ascent: the surface was composed entirely of loose blocks of sand-stone, which, when trod upon, would crumble away, or roll down the nearly perpendic,lar face of the rock ;. and it was only by grasping the branches of the acad and other trees that were firmly rooted in the interstices of the less-decomposed rocks, that we were saved from being precipitated with them. On ou return we passed through the channel en the west side of the Midway Isles, .which we �ound to be very deep, and the stream very strcng, The next day we puled through the strait that insulates Greville. Island, and found that it com- municated witIx Munster. Water, at a part whero

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