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 and described as extending in an irregular chain, or cluster, 800 yards in the direction of N.E.b.E. and S.W.b.W., their breadth varying from 200 to 300 yards. They were distinctly seen under water, particularly a large white mass of rock, in 41/2 fathoms, having from 5 to 61/2 fathoms round it. The shoal was traced in 7 fathoms, on detached rocks, near the edge of it, having deeper water between them. On the southern edge of the shoal, from S.E. to W., the depth increases gradually to 30 fathoms, at the distance of half-a-mile from the shoalest part. The same depth was found to the N.W. and N.E. of the shoal, at the distance of one-third of a mile, and also between N.E. and S.E. at the distance of one mile. In an easterly gale, which would he attended with the whole swell of the Atlantic Ocean, no vessel could pass over these rocks.

This officer’s promotion to the rank of commander took place on the 22d July, 1830. 



his first commission on the 12th Mar. 1807; served as lieutenant under Captain (now Sir John) Harvey, in the Leviathan 74; and was advanced to his present rank on the 22d July, 1830. 

 s made a lieutenant on the 16th June, 1808; and dismissed from the transport service, in 1827, in consequence of his having taken Mrs. Goold to Lisbon for the benefit of her health. This heinous offence, in the sight of one Board, appears to have been considered venial by another, its superior, from which he received a commander’s commission, dated July 22d, 1830. He married, July 1st, 1819, Harriet, daughter of Mr. Knight, of Landport Terrace, near Portsmouth.

