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to it in three fathoms, with the outer point bearing 
S.E. The wind was too fresh to examine the bar 
until the evening, and it was then too late to 
enter ; but early the next morning the cutter was 
warped in, in doing which she grounded on the 
north side of the bar in eight feet. As the water 
was quite smooth, this little delay occasioned no 
damage, and by twelve o’clock she was secured 
to the shore, within ten feet of a steep beach on 
the south side of the entrance ; in all probability 
the very same spot that Captain Cook landed 
his stores upon forty-nine years ago. 
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1819. 
June 27 . 
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