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three myriameters diftance, a flat ifland to which 

 Carteret gave the name of Sir Charles Hardy's 

 Ifland. * [t is five myriameters to the north 

 north -weti of Bouka Ifland. - 



About one o'clock in the afternoon we got 

 fight of Cape St. George, the fouth-eaft part of 

 New Ireland. It bore weft north- weft, diflant 

 about four myriameters: its latitude was fixed at 

 4 5+' 3" fouth; and its longitude at 150 39/ 

 eaft. 



We kept our wind, and (pent the night in 

 making ihort boards. 



As foon as the day broke on the 1 7th we di- 

 rected our courfe for Carteret's Harbour, where 

 we intended to caft anchor. After having left 

 Hammer Ifland a demi-myriameter on the ftar- 

 board hand, we fteered fo as to pafs quite clofe to 

 Booby Rock, leaving Leigh's Ifland on the lar- 

 board hand, and we bore up between Cocoa-nut 

 Ifland and New Ireland, where we anchored 

 about half paft one o'clock in the afternoon, in 

 thirty-one fathoms and a half water, the bottom 

 very foft black mud, mixed with calcareous fand. 

 We were then four hundred meters from Cocoa- 

 nut Ifland. The north-weft point of New Ire- 

 land bore weft 12 north, diflant a demi-myri- 

 ameter, and the fouth-eaft point of the fame 

 land bore fouth 31 eaft, at the fame diftance, 



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