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ths'?miS?q?hc? Would lave'been tmly_dmsd.' ful; the current, or =luics, .Was s -? past ?he. ?',? ? gt the rate .of eight cr nine knot=, and the water being conwed by ?t? interventiom fell. least six or ie?ea feet; at the moment, how- ever, when 'we Were .ulxm th? point .of being. ?lashed to pieces, a sudden breeze providem/?y. sirerag up, and, fdling our s?Is, ?%?11ed the ?ss?l 'forward for ? .or. four y?ls was enough, but only just suffi?nt, for the ?ler was not more the_n_ S/x yar? from tha rock.. 1% sooner .had we ? this ? danger ? the breeze feJl again, and .was succeeded. by 'a dead. cahn; the tide, however, ? ?o carry.us o? with a gradu?y decreasing ?e.ngth, mzt/l. one o'clo?,' when we felt very little eife? from it. -: From the spot we had now reached, the ? fi?m Cape Levee appeared to trend to tha /?hWard, but was not v/sible beyend the bear. i?g ef S.W. ? there wae, however,. some land of being an i?!?_nd; it was afteiwards'fou? to /red was subsoquently call?t a/?er my fr/emi Mr; Cur?ingha?, to whose indef?g?ble zeal th? Sden? world is cons/derabiy/?de?