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which we sailed within the distance of two miles, 

 was chiefly remarkable for its tall, dark looking 

 cliffs, with here and there a small sandy bay inter- 

 vening. We anchored under Point Emeriau, so 

 named by Captain Baudin, by whom it was mistaken 

 for an island ; its tall, white cliff's, springing from 

 and guarded by a base and ledges of black rock, 

 and tinged with red towards their summits, render 

 it a point not easily to be mistaken or forgotten 

 by any who have once seen it. Beyond this the coast 

 curved away to the eastward, forming a bight about 

 eleven miles in length. 



January 26 Leaving our anchorage at daylight, 



we passed the north point of the bight just men- 

 tioned soon after noon ; it is a low black rugged 

 cliffy point, called Borda by the French, having a 

 much more weather-beaten appearance than would 

 have been anticipated in this latitude. Behind it 

 the country rose obliquely, the horizon terminating 

 in an inconsiderable, undulatory, and well-wooded 

 elevation. We passed another bight in the after- 

 noon, the shores of which were low and rocky, with 

 a mangrove creek in its depth : from this bight the 

 coast becomes almost straight, the line being hardly 

 broken by rocky points and shallow sandy bays, 

 to Cape Leveque, on the N.E. side of which we 

 found an indifferent anchorage just before sunset. 

 Cape Leveque is a red cliffy point some sixty feet 

 in height, with an islet of the same character 

 lying close off it. The latter bore from our an- 



