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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1821. Treville, is a bay formed by very low sandy 
Aug. 26 . land, slightly clothed with a stunted vegetation. 
The wind was now unfavourable for our ap- 
proaching the land, and after standing off to sea, 
and then towards the shore, we anchored in 
thirteen fathoms coarse sand. 
At this anchorage we found a still greater dif- 
ference in the tides than was experienced the night 
preceding; the flood set S.E.b.E. and E.S.E. ; 
and the ebb from N.N.E. round to W.N.W.; 
the rise was sixteen feet and a half, from which 
it would appear probable that there must be some 
reason for so great an indraught of water into 
the bight between Cape Villaret and Point Gan- 
theaume, which I have named Roebuck Bay, 
after the ship that Captain Dampier commanded 
when he visited this part of the coast. 
As the wind now blew constantly from the 
S. W., or from some southern direction, and caused 
our progress to be very slow and tedious ; and 
as the shore for some distance to the southward 
of Cape Latouche-Treville had been partly seen 
by the French, I resolved upon leaving the coast. 
Our water was also nearly expended, and our 
provisions, generally, were in a very bad state ; 
besides which, the want of a second anchor was 
so much felt, that we dared not venture into any 
difficulty where the appearance of the place in- 
