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rocks, whpric(.' it recjuired ^eat laboui- to carry 1824. 

 theiii to the water, in consequence of the nig- Sept. 

 ired state of the coast. At thirty minutes after 

 four, A.M., on the 9th, we weighed, and ran 

 along the land which trended e.n.e. At forty 

 minutes after eight, we arrived abreast of tlie 

 Eastern Point, seen fronri our anchorage, at 

 four miles from which the soundings were 

 very irregular, varying suddenly between 

 twenty and nine fathoms, and often being two 

 or three fathoms deeper on one side of the 

 ship than on the other. Rounding this uncer- 

 tain place, the land stretched away north-east 

 to a cape about six miles off, near which was a 

 small rocky isle, surrounded with numerous 

 dangerous shoaLs, awash with tiie water. 

 While abreast of these, and four miles distant, 

 the water shoaled in two casts of the lead 

 from twenty-five to seven and a half fathoms ; 

 and we therefore hauled to the eastward, when 

 having given the land a wide birth, and deep- 

 ened our water to twenty fathoms, we hauled 

 up N.b.E. for a distant point, " Cape Dobbs :" 

 or '' Cape Fry r" but at one P.M., from having 

 a cast of twenty-five fathoms, and in the next 

 only twelve, I was again obliged to steer east ; 

 and, the breeze having freshened to a southerly 

 gale, to close reef the topsails. The weather 



