?28 SURVEY' OF THE I?TERTROPICAL ism was named ?he Admiralty Gulf, we haye given Oct.--?i. positions to at least tbrty islands or islets. Having now emerged from the archipelago of islands which front this part of the north-west ?oast, we sei?.ed the opportunity of taking leave of it for the present, and dirt?ted our course for Timor. At 4h. 19' p.m., when the centre of Cassini Island bore S. 4 � W., distance 6' 8" by survey, sights for the chronometers mad? the centre of the island in 125 � 22", which is ?' 32" to the eastward of the longitude assigned . to its centre in M. de Freycinet's chart. so. On the ?20th, in the evening, a/ter a succes- sion of damp weather, with squalls of thunder, lightning, and rain, and variable baffling winds, a fresh breeze set in from E.S.E. At six o'clock s?. the next morning, it settled in the S.E. with heavy rain, thunder, and lightning, and after- wards the weather cleared up. As soon as day dawned, sail was made to the N.W., and be. fore noon we hauled up N.N.W. to allow for a westerly current; at two p.m. the weather clouded in, and was followed by squalls of wind and rain from the N.E, which, a/ter passing over us, returned again from the westward with more rain but less wind. =. At daylight (22d), we saw the Island of Rottee, but instead of being, according to our account,
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