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our provisions and bread without getting them 
wetted. 
On the 5th, after two ineffectual attempts to 
heave the cutter off the ground, she floated ; and, 
by the 8th, every thing being embarked, we 
made preparations to quit this place, which had 
afforded us the means of repairing our damage, 
and stopping for the present the progress of 
an injury which had been every day assuming 
a more serious aspect. % 
The country in the vicinity of the bay, which, 
from the use we made of it, was called Careening 
Bay, is only slightly covered with a poor, stony 
soil; but, notwithstanding this drawback, the 
hills are well wooded, and vegetation so abun- 
dant, that, had it not been for the conflagration 
which has lately spoiled the trees of their leaves, 
the country would have appeared pleasing and 
verdant. 
The following is a list of some of the trees 
indigenous to the shores and neighbourhood of 
Careening Bay, for which I am indebted to Mr. 
Cunningham : — - 
1820. 
Oct. 5. 
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