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224 helters it from the urges, renders it an excellent place of helter for veels that tand in need of any repairs.

The other creeks which they examined afforded in general very good anchorage.

They dicovered a bay that extended o far to the north-eat, that they could not get within view of its extremity. Poibly ome of thee bights in the land may be parts of channels which communicate with the ea on the oppoite ide.

The preparation of the pecimens which I had collected on the preceding days, employed my whole leiure on the 21t.

The gardener went with ix other perons in the long boat, with the view of landing at the iland which I had examined on the preceding day. After having in vain contended with violent and contrary winds, they left the boat adrift, thinking it would run into a creek under helter of a mall iland, ituated at the entrance of the channel which they had before endeavoured to reach. But this tep was very near proving their ruin: their ail fell into the ea, and the boat, being uddenly topped in its coure, oon began to be filled with water by the violence of the urge. At length they arrived, overcome with fatigue, under the helter of the iland, where the calm that prevailed afforded them a pleaing re- pite