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`` No , captain , with the aid of time and tempest . However , it would be surprising , even in this case , that some of the masts or spars should not have been thrown on the beach , out of reach of the waves . '' `` Let us go on with our search , then , '' returned Cyrus Harding . At one o'clock the colonists arrived at the other side of Washington Bay , they having now gone a distance of twenty miles . They then halted for breakfast . Here began the irregular coast , covered with lines of rocks and sandbanks . The long sea-swell could be seen breaking over the rocks in the bay , forming a foamy fringe .