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 A. isthmus of about a mile wide, separating it from an inlet to Sect. II. the westward of Cape Conway. This bay very probably N. East affords good anchorage: out of the strefigth of the tides. Coast. CAPE CONWAY, in lat. 20 �, and longitude 148 �, is the western limit of the south entrance of Whirsunday Passage; it is a steep point, sl.oping off to the eastward: immediately on its north side is a small shingly beach, a few yards behind which there is a hollow, containing a large quantity of fresh water. At a short.quarter of a mile from the point is a rocky shoal of small size, between which and the shore there is deep water. PINE HEAD, in lat. 20 �, and longitude 148 � 40', is the south-.cast extremity of a small island that is separated from the main by a passage of about a mile wide, but we did not ascertain vhether it is navigable. The head is a high, bluff point, clothed with pin-trees: near it the tide runs in strong eddies, and for that reason it ought not to be ap- proached nearer than half:a milo; it appeared to be bold to. There is a sandy bay on its sputh west side affording a good landing-place; the island is clothed with grass, and thickly wooded: we found no water. The variation was 5 � East. PORT MOLLE, so named by Lieutenant Jeffreys, ap- peared to' trend in for four or five miles: and, probably, to afford a convenient port, as it is well sheltered from the wind, and is protected from the north-east by a group of small islands, thickly wooded. Hence the land trends to the north-west towards Cape Gloucester; the shore was' very indistinctly seen, but seemed to be very much in- dented, and to possess several bays, if not rivers; for the Digitized by CO02Ic

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