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co?s o? .?US?a?L?A. the pale of danger: and I now. began to fear 18?o. that the leak had been occasioned more from the defect .of her fastenings, than from the accident that haplYned to her keel; so that we were in every respect as badly off as before the cutter was careened. This made me decide upon in- ?tanfly returning to Port: Jackson; but it was �with great regret that I .foUnd it necessary to resolve so; for 'the: land ,to the westward ap- peared so indented, as to render .the necessity

of:our departure at' this moment particularly

vexatious. ' , The next day, therefore, we passed out to sea, to the westward of Baudin's Keraudren Island.. ' The 'wind, upon leaving the coast, being W.S.W. and W.N.W., carried us as far to the north as '11 �', ?before? we met with southerly winds; al?er which they gradually veered to the south-east trade. " �On the 30th, at midnight, we were upon the parallel of 19� ', 'on which the Tryal rocks have been said to exist; in order, therefare, to be on the safe side, we tacked to the .northward for four hours, and then passed back again until daylight, when we resumed our course. At ten o'clock a.m. we were in the latitude assigned to these rocks by the brig Greyhound, the master of