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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819 . 
Jan. 
13 — 16 . 
but so lightly as to occasion neither damage nor 
delay. 
An anchorage was taken up in Outer Bay, in 
order to sound the bar whilst the weather was so 
favourable for the purpose, which employed us 
until the 16 th, when a westerly wind enabled us 
to enter the harbour ; but, from baffling winds and 
the ebbing tide, and the width of the entrance 
being only seventy yards, we found a consider- 
able difficulty in effecting it. The anchor was 
dropped as soon as the cutter was inside, and she 
was afterwards warped to a more convenient 
situation out of the strength of the tide. 
Here we remained during the evening, in order 
to obtain bearings from two contiguous stations 
on the hills. Near one of them, we found lying 
on the rocks a bundle of garments, which, upon 
examination, were found to be of colonial manu- 
facture ; they bore no marks of ever having been 
worn, and as I afterwards found had been given 
by Mr. Florance to the natives ; who, disliking 
the confinement ol clothes, had abandoned them 
as useless. 
The next day we were employed in moving the 
vessel up the harbour to Mount Wellington, and 
in the examination of Channel Bay. In doing 
this, a brig passed us on her way out ; she proved 
