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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1821. we had yesterday concluded it likely to exist, 
Augr- 4 . and had in consequence steered towards it ; but 
as we proceeded, the probability became less 
and less, and we gave up the search when we 
were within three hundred yards of being ac- 
tually in it. 
We then pulled up Munster Water, and after- 
wards through the strait to sea ; and, landing on 
some dry rocks on a reef which projects off the 
west head of the strait, found that we were at the 
entrance of the bight, which was last year named 
Hanover Bay : after taking a set of bearings, 
we re-embarked, and proceeded to the bottom of 
the bay, which terminated in a shoal basin. 
On our return we entered an opening in the 
rocky cliff, which bore the appearance of being 
the outlet of a torrent stream ; being low- water, 
there was not in many parts sufficient depth to 
float the boat; but after pulling up for half a 
mile, a muddy channel was found, which, at the 
end of another half mile, was terminated by a 
bed of rocks, over which the tide flows at high- 
water. The ravine is formed by steep preci- 
pitous rocks, which are at least two hundred 
and fifty feet high; it appeared to extend to a 
considerable distance, and as the farther pro- 
gress of the boat was prevented by the stones 
and want of water, Bundell and two of the boat’s 
