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anchor, we therefore got underweigh, and made i 82 i. 
sail by the wind ; but, upon standing across the Aug. le. 
channel, and finding that the flood-tide set to 
the S.W., we bore away, and, passing round 
Point Hall, steered to the southward towards 
some low islands, that were just visible through 
the haze, and which, being disposed in a group, 
were named after Mr. Andrew Montgomery, the 
surgeon of the Bathurst. 
At noon, our latitude observed to the South, 
was 15° 44' 16". The land was visible from the 
deck as far as S. 30° W., but from the mast head 
at one o’clock it was seen as far S; 50° W., and a 
long low island, the westernmost of Montgomery 
Isles, bore from S.W.b.W. to S.W.b.S. The 
group, besides this, contained six other isles, 
which are all low and rocky, and crowned with 
bushes: as we approached them the water 
shoaled to ten fathoms rocky ground ; which on 
being reduced to the depth of low water, would 
not be more than five, and perhaps only four 
fathoms. Between Point Hall and these islands 
the ground was also rocky, and, as the group ap- 
peared to be connected by reefs, we steered off to 
pass round them ; the wind, however, changing 
to the westward, detained us all the evening 
near them. 
The land to the southward trended deeply in, 
