ſhelters it from the ſurges, renders it an excellent place of ſhelter for veſſels that ſtand in need of any repairs.
The other creeks which they examined afforded in general very good anchorage.
They diſcovered a bay that extended ſo far to the north-eaſt, that they could not get within view of its extremity. Poſſibly ſome of theſe bights in the land may be parts of channels which communicate with the ſea on the oppoſite ſide.
The preparation of the ſpecimens which I had collected on the preceding days, employed my whole leiſure on the 21ſt.
The gardener went with ſix other perſons in the long boat, with the view of landing at the iſland which I had examined on the preceding day. After having in vain contended with violent and contrary winds, they left the boat adrift, thinking it would run into a creek under ſhelter of a ſmall iſland, ſituated at the entrance of the channel which they had before endeavoured to reach. But this ſtep was very near proving their ruin: their ſail fell into the ſea, and the boat, being ſuddenly ſtopped in its courſe, ſoon began to be filled with water by the violence of the ſurge. At length they arrived, overcome with fatigue, under the ſhelter of the iſland, where the calm that prevailed afforded them a pleaſing re-
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