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 SAILING DIREC?ION$. 2� land at the back is very high, and' must give rise to several A. mountain, if not navigable, streams. Sect. IL IOUIT DRYAIDER, whose summit is in latitude 20 �4' 10", and longitude 148 � 55", forms a small pek, and is visible from Repulse Bay, as well as from the northern extremity of the Cumberland Islands: it is four thousand five hundred and sixty-six feet high; and the hills round it are at least from seven hundred to a thousand feet in height. The reater part of the water that collects from these hills probably empties itself into Repulse and Edcumbe Bays, or it ay be distributed in lagoons upon the low land that aeparates them. At the back Of Point Slade there is a high mountainous range extending without interruption to the westward of Mount Upstart. In latitude 21 �, and longitude 148 �� is a high-rounded summit, which is visible at the distance of twenty leagues: between this range, which is at the distance of from five to seven leagues from the sea, and the coast, are several ridges gradually lowering in altitude as they approach the shore. In the aeighbourhood of Repulse Bay, this moun- tainohs range recedes, and has a considerable track of low !and at its base, which is possibly a ric h country: from the height of the hills, it must be well watered. CAPE GLOUCESTER. The point of !and that Captain Cook took origlnafly for the cape, is an island of about five miles long and two broad, separated from the true Cape Gloucester by a strait, a mile and  half wide. The island is called Gloucester Island; its summit at the north end is in latitude 19 � 24 ', longitude 148 � 38"; it is eighteen hundrel and seventy-four feet high and its summit is a ridge of peaks: its shores are rocky and steep; and,

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