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in the same direction. A deep bight lay at the 

 back of these islands, with points and openings 

 visible in its most distant part. They passed 

 near enough to determine that they were high, 

 steep, and difficult of access. Their tops and 

 sloping parts were grown over with either coarse 

 grass or short brush; but not any trees appear- 

 ed. The largest might be seven or eight miles 

 in circuit, the smaller were mere masses of rock, 

 and the whole in number about twelve, obtained 

 the name of Hunter's Isles. 



A fresh gale at E. N. E. and a heavy swell 

 from the S. W. drove the vessel fast to the South- 

 M r ard and Westward; and on the 11th, the gale 

 having moderated, they stretched in for the 

 land, a large extent of which was indistinctly 

 visible through a light haze that hung about the 

 horizon. At noon the latitude was 41° 13', and 

 the longitude 148° 58'. With a fresh breeze at: 

 N. N. E. they bore away along the shore, which 

 trends to the S. E. by E. and was distant three 

 or four miles. 



On the following morning the wind rounded 

 to the Northward, and they continued along the 

 shore. Early in the forenoon they passed a sin- 

 gular point, with a number of lumps of rock ly- 

 ing some two or three miles off it to the S. W. 

 It resembled an artificial pier, or mole, witM 

 warehouses upon it, and a light-house on the end 

 next the water. Large masses of detached ob- 

 long rocks gave the appearance of warehouses* 

 and a remarkable long one standing upon its 

 end, that of the light-house. 



