WNW
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On the 23rd a brisk WNW. gale, favourable for their course, arose, and on the same day a turtle-dove, a land fowl, and other birds, were seen.
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At eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the weather cleared up, when the Spanish fleet appeared in sight about three leagues distant from them to the WNW.
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Parts of the | |horizon observed ESE and WNW.
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The boundary nullah is a mere streamlet: it runs between two ridges of the Patkaye: its course being about ESE. and WNW.
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These lie WNW from Briers Island, extending offshore about 18 miles.
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