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deep opening: this projection, on account of a re- isi9. 
markable tree standing above the bushes near to Sept. 4. 
its extremity, was called Tree Point. 
At this anchorage the tide rose eighteen feet, 
and ran nearly at the rate of two miles per hour. 
The next morning, at daybreak, when the land 5 * 
became visible, Captain Baudin’s Cape Dombey 
was recognised, bearing S. 83° E. Between 
Capes Ford and Dombey, the coast is higher 
than usual, and thickly wooded to the verge of 
the cliffs, which preserve the same deep red co- 
lour with those more to the northward; under 
them a sandy beach uninterruptedly lines the 
coast. The bottom, at from three to five miles 
distance, is rather irregular, and varies in its 
depth between seven and a half and ten fathoms. 
An opening in the land is laid down near Cape 
Dombey in the French charts, before which are 
placed the Barthelemy Islands, which certainly 
do not exist, and it was not until after the haze 
of the day cleared up, that two detached quad- 
rilateral shaped hills were seen over the low 
land ; and, as these at a distance would assume 
exactly the figure and appearance of islands, 
they must have been the cause of the mistake ; 
I have therefore called them (by altering the no- 
menclature as little as possible) the Barthelemy 
Hills, 
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