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Jackson, it seemed the flood came from the 

 Southward, and would therefore produce littl 

 or no set along the coast, either way, in th< 

 greatest part of that space. From Break Se; 

 Spit, the coast trends to the Westward of North, 

 which has a tendency to draw the flood from 

 the S. E. and this was shown by Capt. Cook to 

 be the case. Thus concluded the arduous voy- 

 age of Lieut. Flinders, whose great skill in ex- 

 ploring unknown coasts and harbours, ha3 so 

 evidently manifested itself in this excursion, pro- 

 mises fair to place him high in the list of British 

 circum-navigators. 



