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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1821 . breeze set in from S.S.W. and S.W., and we 
Aug. 20. steered to the southward. The land was now 
visible considerably to the southward of Point 
Gantheaume, but of a very low and sandy cha- 
racter; and as we proceeded, it came in sight 
to the S.S.W. At sunset we anchored about 
five or six miles to the north of Captain Baudih's 
Cape Villaret ; the extreme, which was in sight 
a little without it, was doubtless his Cape La- 
touche-Treville. From Cape Villaret the land 
trended to the E.N.E, and was seen very nearly 
to join the shore at the back of Point Gantheaume. 
The dew was precipitated as copiously this 
evening as the last, and the sun set in a very 
dense bank ; but the night was throughout fine. 
We now began to experience a more consider- 
able set of tide than we had found since rounding 
Cape Leveque, for the rate was as much as a 
knot and a half ; but as the tides were neaped, 
it only rose nine feet. 
At an anchorage near this spot, in the year 
1699, Captain Dampier remarks that the tide 
rose and fell five fathoms, and ran so strong 
that his nun-buoy would not watch: but the 
French expedition, at an anchorage a little to the 
southward, found the flood-tide to set S.S.E. and 
to rise only nine feet, the moon being then three 
days past her full. All these particulars have 
