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within Cape Leveque was named Point Swan, is2i. 
after the captain of the ship ; and to a remark- au^so. 
able lump in the centre of the Archipelago the 
name of Dampier’s Monument was assigned. 
During the last four days we have laid down 
upwards of eighty islands upon the chart, and 
from the appearance of the land, it is not impro- 
bable but that there may be as many more 
behind them. 
Had we even recognised the bay above al- 
luded to by Dampier before we passed round 
Cape Leveque, we could not have anchored in 
it, for the wind was blowing strong from the 
northward, and a heavy swell was rolling, w^hich 
would have placed us in rather a dangerous 
situation, besides its being exposed to easterly 
winds, which for the last two or three days had 
blown very strong. During the time we had 
been among these islands, we had not met with 
a single spot that we could have anchored upon 
without the almost certain loss of our anchor ; 
and the weather had been so very thick and 
hazy, that only the land in the vicinity of the 
vessel’s situation could be at all distinguished; 
and these disadvantages, added to the great 
strength of the wind and the rapidity of the 
tides, had materially prevented us from making 
