thick gloomy weather, with the wind be?v?u' h?v?g previously hllm to ?.91, ro? to ?9.95 eompa?eci the r?in, but the wind was ready, and did not freshen or lull during the showers. On the 5th, at daylight, Goulburn Xalands we.rm so?n, and at nine o'clock we passed through strait that ?vides thom; our track lining half st mile more to the northward than that of last xear, we had more regular sounding. As soon as we anchored in South-West Bay, I sent on shore to examine our �ormor waterins- plac? but-found that the stream lind failed. The parch? up appea.,m?. of the island shewed that the last hnd been an unusually.dry season; revery plaoe that, even in the month of. August, six weeks later, had before yielded large quan. titie9, as ,well as the lagoon behind the beach, which, f?om the nature of the plants growing in' it, was conjectured to be a never-failing supply, was now dried up. The next morning the brig's boat went over to Sims Island with Mr. (?mmin?ham, and there found a small quantity of. water, stt?ient, ?ording to Mr. Hemmn.?s's report, for a[l our. wants. ? n?xt too.ming (?th), !? m0?l the, Digitized byGOOgle.
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