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COASTS OF AUSTRALIA.
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to run to the southward until the afternoon, when, 1820.
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June 22. supposing we had passed that port, we bore away to the S.W. At midnight the gale fell, and the wind changed to the westward. At day, 23. light land was seen to windward, which, from the distance we had ran, was supposed to be about Port Stevens; but we found ourselves at noon, by a meridional observation, off Jervis' Bay; so that the current, during the gale, had set us one hundred and fifty miles to the south. ward, and for the last twenty-four hours at the rate of nearly three knots per hour. Owing to this we did not arrive at Port Jackson until the following day at noon;24. and it was sunset before the cutter anchored in the cove.