COAS'? O? A?S?e?L?. 171 ? o'clock it bore between N.E. sod 8.F,., nnd at a qtmrt? sAet nine, h?yy ?eekers wet? j?.--i% seen in the S.E., ? the distance of five miles. The weather was now ?e, and the whd but Mill Mew atmng; the horizo? w?s so en, veloped by haze that the !and, although not more tinetly seen: it seemed to be formed of sand hills, from one hundr .ed to one hundred and fi?y feet high, slifhtly studded with a scrubby vegetation in the inte?or we perceived ? ?e of hills of tabulm, form, which are probably very high. At ten o'elo? we passed nnother patch of bFeako but thes e appeared to have no eonnezion with those seen at nine d'clock. Our soundings were between tiffin and seventeen fathoms, and ou? distance/knn the beach, from s/x to seven miles. At noon the wind Veered back to 8. S.W., and blew hard: we were at this time in and by ?hr?ometers in ll4 � ? ?'.,,?t; by which we found that a current had set us during the last twenty-four hours, to the N.N.W. at one m/le per hour. At half past twelve o'clock, more breakers were seen, bearing N.W.]?N., when we hauled off W.N.W., in order to ascertain the d/stance between the land and the Abrolhos bank, which, in Van Keulen's ? is abreast of this part of the coast.
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