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menced, which during the night blew a perfect hurricane between the N.W and S.W. This night of danger and anxiety, was succeeded by a morning beautifully serene, which shewed us the Southern coast of New South Wales. From the total want of information respecting the appearance of the land on this coast, we were doubtful as to our situation, and approached the shore with cautious diffidence; at length the break in the land, which forms the entrance of Port Philip, was observed, but a surf, apparently breaking across it[1], created, at first, some mistrust of its identity, until the man at the mast-head observing
- ↑ This we afterwards found was occasioned by the rapidity of the ebb-tide, counteracted by the wind which created a breaking sea, that must destroy the best constructed open boat.
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