N E W S O U T H W A L E S. ' ' t) 
The high fea which had impeded the intercourfe be- ^ "^^^ 
tween the iliips, as they were out of the reach of rocks ' — ^^-^ 
June j.J, 
and flioals, was not, in other relpecfis, an unfavourable ^787- 
circumftance. On the whole, therefore, the weather was 
reckoned fine, and the paffage very profperous from Spit- 
head to Santa Cruz, in the Ifle of Teneriffe, where the 
fleet anchored on the 3d of June. 
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