isis. ' The bay in which we had anchored.was called, ?.?. at Mr. Roe's request,. Nickol's Bay; it is open only to the N.E., and affords safe shelter, with good holding-ground. At the bottom of the bay, on both sides of a projecting point of land, on which three round-backed hills were conspicuous, the coast falls back, and forms two bights, the western of which is backed. by .very low land, lined with mangroves; and may probably con- tain a small rivulet: the other is smaller, but the land behind it is higher than in the western bay, which of the two appears to be of the most im- portanco; but as the tide did not flow at a greater rate than a quarter of a knot, very fittie was at- tached to any opening that may exist there. At this anchorage we experienced another squall, similar to that off Cape Preston, but not so severe; the sand was blown over us from the shore, although we were at least two miles distant from it. 5. The next morning we steered to the eastward, along the land, and soon after noon passed round Captain Baudin's Bezout Island; a projecting point within it was named in compliment to my friend Aylmer Bourke Lambert, esq.; behind which a range of hills extends to the S.S.E. for five or six leagues,. and then trends to the east- ward, toward a group of islands, named, by. the
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