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leagues distant. At eight o'clock we steered S.E. 

 by S., and at ten S.E. by E., with a fresh breeze at 

 N., attended with a very thick fog ; but we were, in 

 some measure, acquainted with the sea over which 

 we were running. The rocks above-mentioned ob- 

 tained the name of Clerke's Rocks, after my second 

 officer, he being the first who saw them. 



