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jointed ; the joints being of an uniform thickness, and nearly as 1802. 
broad as long. These fibres were generally of unequal length, and Mondays, 
the extremities of the compound particle thence appeared somewhat 
torn. The particles exhibited no motion when in salt water; and 
the sole effect produced by immersing them in spirit of wine was the 
separation of each into its component fibres. 
Until daybreak next morning the wind was unfavourable ; Tuesday 19. 
but it then veered round to the south, and enabled us to pass Point 
Culver. Our situation at noon, and the bearings taken were these : 
Latitude, observed to the north and south, 32 0 52' 51" 
Longitude by time keepers, - - 124 58 
Point Culver, distant five leagues, - S. 78 W. 
Small rock under the cliffs, dist. 5 miles, North. 
Furthest extreme of the coast, cliffs, N. 39 E. 
Our course along the shore was so favoured by the wind, that 
at seven in the evening we had passed another projecting part of the 
cliffs, named Point Dover, distant from Point Culver fifty miles ; 
and the extreme in sight a-head was twenty miles further, and still 
cliffy. The nearest part was two or three leagues distant ; and the 
wind being still at south, we hauled up to it, and at nine o'clock 
stood back to the westward. 
The elevation of these cliffs appeared to be about five-hundred 
feet, and nothing of the back country was seen above them. In the 
upper part they are brown, in the lower part nearly white, and the 
two strata, as also the small layers of which each is composed, are 
nearly horizontal. They were judged to be calcareous, as was the 
white, grey, and brown sand which the lead brought up when the 
bottom was not of coral. 
A surveyor finds almost no object here whose bearing 
can be set a second time. Each small projection presents the 
"appearance of a steep cape, as it opens out in sailing along; but 
before the ship arrives abreast of it, it is lost in the general uni- 
formity of the coast, and the latitude, longitude, and distance of the 
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