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INTRODUCTION. 
[Prior Discoveries, 
Bampton Island bore N. N. E. to E. N. E., eight or ten miles, and where the 
ai i793^ observed latitude was 9 0 27' south. She remained upon this bank 
until the morning of the 24th ; when Mr. Bampton got into a chan- 
nel of 13 fathoms, which had been found by the boats, and the ship 
did not appear to have received other damage, than the loss of 
the false keel. The still continued to be kept at work, day and 
night. 
Aug. 27. Messieurs Bampton and Alt proceeded onward in a 
track which had been sounded by the boats. At sunset, they came 
to, in 4 fathoms ; the extremes of New Guinea then bearing N. W. 
by W. to N. E. by E., three .or four leagues. Some further progress 
was made next morning ; and at noon, when at anchor in 3^ fathoms, 
and in latitude 9 0 26^-', an island was discovered bearing S. W. | S. 
five or six leagues ; which received, eventually, the name of Deli- 
verance Island. 
Aug. 29. The Hormuzeer grounded at low water ; from which 
it appeared that the tide had fallen twelve feet, though then at the 
neaps. When the ship floated, they made sail to the westward ; and 
deepened the water to 9 and 12 fathoms. At noon, it had again 
shoaled to 6 ; Deliverance Island bearing S. S. W. ~ W. nine or ten 
miles, and New Guinea N. W. to N. by E. * E. four or five leagues : 
latitude observed 9 0 25' south. After preceding a little further 
westward, they anchored in 5 fathoms. 
Aug. go. The soundings varied as before, between 4 and 10 
fathoms : the bottom, rotten coral intermixed with sand. At noon, 
when the latitude was 9 0 21', Deliverance Island was just in sight 
from the deck, in the S. E. by S. ; and the extremes of New Guinea 
bore N. E. by E. to N. W. \ W., ten or twelve miles.* In the after- 
noon, the depth again decreased to 4 fathoms, and obliged them to 
anchor until morning. On the 31st, the ships appear to have steered 
* Mr. Bampton's chart and journal are more at variance here than in the preceding 
parts of the Strait, and I have found it very difficult to adjust them; but have attempted 
it in Plate XIII, 
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