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 SAILING DIRECTIONS. .7 THE TWEED is a river communicating with the sea by a A. bar, on which there is twelve feet water, it is situated about Sect. L a mile and a half to the north of a small island off Point E. Coast. Dan{er, which lies in latitude 28 � In latitude 28 �re is a comm,mication with the inlet at the south side of Moreton Bay, insulating the land whose north extremity is Point Lookout. The entrance of this inlet iS shoal and only passable for boats. ' ' MORETON BAY*. In additiou to the account of this bay by Capufia Fiinders t, Lieutenant Oxley has lately dis- covered the Brisbane, a very fine fresh water river that falls into it in 27 � latitude, abreast of the strait between Moreton Island and Point Lookout. WIDE BAY, the entrance of which is in latitnde 25 �, was examined by Mr. Edwardson, the master of one of the government eolonial vessels; he found it to be a good port, having in its entrance a channel of not less than three fa- thoms deep; and to communicate with Hervey Bay, thns making an island of the Oreat Sandy Penin. snla. INDIAN HEAD is in latitude 25 � and longitude the name given by Captain Cook to three remarkable glass house looking hills near Pumice-stone River; but as Captain Cook be- stowed the name of Moreton Bay upon the strait to the south of Moreton Island, that name has a prior claim, and is now generally adopted. A penal settlement he] lately been formed at Red Cliff Point, which is situated a little to the north of the embouchure of the Brisbane River. ' FLINDBRS'S ltodvt. cxcvl, VOL. I1. S
 * This bay was originally called Glass House Bay, in allusion to

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