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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1820. the anniversary of the late king’s coronation, was 
Sept. 20. subsequently called the Coronation Islands. The 
harbour was called Port Nelson, and a high rocky 
hill, that was distinguished over the land to the 
southward, received the name of Mount Tra- 
falgar. 
Notwithstanding we had constantly experi- 
enced since the period of our leaving the east 
coast both fine weather and smooth water, yet 
the leaky state of the vessel had been gradually 
• increasing ; leading me to fear that the injury 
received at Port Bowen had been much more 
serious than we had then contemplated. Having 
the advantage of smooth water and a fair wind 
during our passage up the east coast, the damage 
had not shewn itself until we reached Cairncross 
Island: after this it was occasionally observed, 
but with more or less effect according to the 
strength and the direction of the wind, and the 
state of the sea. At the anchorage off Booby 
Island, being exposed to a swell, she made four 
inches of water in an hour ; but, during the 
examination of Montagu Sound and the harbour 
we last left, it did not shew at all : upon leaving 
Hunter’s River, and working against a fresh 
sea-breeze, the leak gained more than three 
inches in the hour ; and, in passing round Cape 
Torrens, the vessel being pressed down in the 
