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 SAILING DIRECTIONS. In latitude 18 �, nine miles from the shore, and six A. .miles within the island No. 2, is a coral reef, that shews Sec. at low water: it appeared to be about two miles long; N. East between it and No. 2 is a wide channel with nine fathoms. The Lady Elliot, merchant ship, in 1815, struck upon & reef n 18 �, about four miles from the shore; of which we �w,nothing; we anchored within four miles of its position, ?out, at daylight, when we got under weigh, it might have been covered by the tide. 'In 18 � and 146 � is a reef, ou which the San .Antonio, merehunt brig, struck: its. position was not cor- reedy ascertained, as the accident happened in the night. �POINT. HILLOCK is in. latitude 18 �, and 1ongitud 146 �; it is a low point projecting to the eastward, under �Mount Hinchinbrook. CAPE SANDWICH is the north-east extremity of the sandy !and that stretches to the northward from the base of Mount 1tinehinbrook, which is so high as to be visible for , eigh__tee_ leagues: the mount is topped with a craggy sum- mir, seven miles in length from north to south. There is a reef that extends for nearly a mile and a half off the cape, having a rocky. islet at its extremity. The cape is in latitude 18 � 20", and longitude 146 � 40", The 1Mak at the north end of Mount Hinchinbrook is in latitude ,18 � 30", and longitude 146 �. BROOKE'S ISLANDS lie four miles north from Cape Sandwich; they consist of three rocky islets, besides some �ofmualler size; the whole are surroand by a coral reef. From Oape Sandwich the land extends, low. and sandy, in a N.W. direction for live 'miles m a point, which is ter-

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