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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
Isis. The bay in which we had anchored was called, 
March 4. a t ]y[ r> Roe’s request, Nickol’s Bay ; it is open 
only to the N.E., and affords safe shelter, with 
good holding-ground. At the bottom of the bay, 
on both sides of a projecting point of land, on 
which three round-backed hills were conspicuous, 
the coast falls back, and forms two bights, the 
western of which is backed by very low land, 
lined with mangroves ; and may probably con- 
tain a small rivulet : the other is smaller, but the 
land behind it is higher than in the western bay, 
which of the two appears to be of the most im- 
portance ; but as the tide did not flow at a greater 
rate than a quarter of a knot, very little was at- 
tached to any opening that may exist there. 
At this anchorage we experienced another 
squall, similar to that off Cape Preston, but not 
so severe ; the sand was blown over us from the 
shore, although we were at least two miles distant 
from it. 
5. The next morning we steered to the eastward, 
along the land, and soon after noon passed round 
Captain Baudins Bezout Island; a projecting 
point within it was named in compliment to my 
friend Aylmer Bourke Lambert, esq. ; behind 
which a range of hills extends to the b.S.E. for 
five or six leagues, and then trends to the east- 
ward, toward a group of islands, named by the 
