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 20 APPENDIX. �A. extends for three-quarters of a mile from its north-east end; Sect. II. the island is not more' than three-quarters of a mile long, lq'. East and about a quarter of a mile broad; it is dmgerous to Cot. approach at night, from being very low. It .is situated thirty miles N. 53 �(mug.) from the extremity' of Break- sea Spit (as laid down in Captain Flinders's chart) ;' its lati- tude is 24 � and its longitude 152 � BUNKER'S GROUP-consists of three islets; they are low and wooded like Lady Elllot's Island, and lie S.E. and N.W; from each other; the south-eastenuncat (or lst,) a coral reef projecting for two miles and a half to the N.E. four miles and a half to the N.W. of the north westernmost (or 3d islet,) is a large shoal, which, from the heavy breakers upon it, is probably a part of the barrier or outer reefs. The centre island (or 2d} of the group, is in latitude 23 � I0', and longitude 152 � 5". Off the south-west end of the 2d island, is a small detached islet connected to it by a reef; and o/t  the north-east end of the 3d island, is another islet, also connected by a coral reef. The spaces between these islands,' wc! are more than league wide, are quite free from danger: we passed within quarter of a mile of the south end of the reef oil' the 3d island, without getting bottom with ten fathoms. RODD'S BAY, a small harbour on the west side of the point to the northward of Bustard Bay, oilere a good shelter for vessels of one hundred and /ifty tons burden. channel lies between two sand-banks, which communicate with either shore. In hauling round the point, steer for Middle Head, a projecting rocky point covered with trees, keeping the centre of it in the bearing of about South (mug.); you wilJ then carry first five, then six and seven

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