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about two miles from the shore of Montagu's Island. 

 The calm continued till ten o'clock the next morn- 

 ing, when it was succeeded by a small breeze from 

 the north, with which we weighed ; and, by six o'clock 

 in the evening, we were again in the open sea, and 

 found the coast trending west by south, as far as the 

 eye could reach. 



