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bottom. On the west side of the peninsula we isi9. 
passed three bays, from one to two miles deep Oct. 7. 
and one mile broad ; in each of these inlets there 
appeared to be good anchorage. 
The bay was named Vansittart, after the late 
Chancellor of the Exchequer. 
At daylight ( 8 th) we weighed and stood out 8 . 
to the N.W., between Troughton Island and 
Cape Bougainville. Round the latter projection 
the land trends so deeply in to the southward 
that it was lost to view ; but two flat-topped is- 
lands were seen in the S.S.W., which afterwards 
proved to be some of Captain Baudin’s Institute 
Isles ; we were now obliged to steer down the 
western side of the cape, for our further progress 
to the westward was stopped by a considerable 
reef, extending north and south parallel with the 
land of Cape Bougainville. During the after- 
noon we had the wind and tide against us, so 
that we made no progress. Some bights in the 
coast were approached with the intention of an- 
choring in them, but the water was so deep 
and the ground so unfavourable for it, that the 
stream anchor was eventually dropped in the 
offing in twenty-two fathoms : where, during the 
night, the tide set with unusual velocity, and ran at 
the rate of one knot and three-quarters per hour. 
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