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218 As the wind abated about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, we availed ourelves of this opportunity to fit out the pinnace. The engineer was dipatched in order to examine whether an opening een N. 30° E. afforded a paage for our veels.

The ebb-tide drifted us from eight in the evening till two in the morning at the rate of half a knot every hour to N.W.N.

The tiffnes of the breeze preventing us from ending any of our boats to the hore, we were obliged to remain on board.

19th. On the following day we were landed at the ditance of 2,500 toies S.W. on an iland which bounds this channel throughout its whole length. A boat belonging to the Eperance had paed the night at the ame place, and taken a great quantity of fih.

It was a great gratification to me to travere this country, where I found a large number of new plants, the mot numerous of which belonged to the genus of melaleuca, ater, epacris, &c.

The hore of the channel afforded us a very eay path through the buhes which are here but thinly cattered. We afterwards climbed up ome teep acents which rie to about 25 toies perpendicular height above the level of the ea. We here oberved a quantity of ea-alt depoited by the