COA?T? O? AU?TI?A/?A. ? Sir Roger Curtis Island, and the next day cleared the strait. Nov. On the 2d we were o/? Mount Dromedary; and De? the wind blew strong from the East, the weather assuming a threatening appearance, The next day we passed the hoads of Jervis Bay, at the a distance of three or four leagues, and the course was altered to North and N.b.W. parallel to the coast. At noon an indigerent observation for the latitude, and a sight of the land, which for a few minute.? was visible through the squalls, shewed that our situation was very much nearer to the shore than we had expected, a circum- stance that was attributed to a current setting into the bight to the northward of Jervis Bay. The wind from the eastward was light and ba?ng, and this, added to the critical situation we were in, made mo very anxious to obtain an ofllng before night, for there was every appear- anco of a gale from the eastward. At?r two or three squalls a breeze sprung up from the E.S.E. with heavy rain, and a N.N.E. course was steered, which should have taken us wide of the coast: having run thirty-seven miles on that course, we steered N.b.E. four miles, and then N.?W., that we might not be more than twenty miles from the shore in the morning, and s?tciently near to see the light-house on the �o,g,t,zeo by Goog[�
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