Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/305

 APPENDIX. A. on which, at high water, there is about. fourteen-feet; but, Sect. IL at low water, not more than ten Feet: the channel over. the N. East bar is close to the south side, for the sand-bank extends Coast. from the low sandy north shore to within one hundred and forty yards of the south shore, and at three quarters ebb (spring tides) is dry. In steering in for the mouth, upon bringing Point Monk- house in a line with Point at, (the north point of the bay under Mount Cook,) you will be in three rutbores; steer in until the south extremity of the low north sandy point is opened of the trend round Point C, when you may haul a little more in, and when point d (which is a point where the mangroves commence,} bears S. 33 �(magnetic,) steer directly for it; this will carr you over the deepest part o/ the bar, which stretches off from point c in a N. 76 � (magnetic,) direction; another mark is to keep the trend be- yond d just in sight, but not open, oryou will be too near the spit: the best way is, having opened it, haul in a little to the southward, and shut it in again: you may pass within ten yards of Point d; and theest anchorage is just within it: the vessel may be secured head and stern to trees on, the beach, with bow and stern anchors to steady her. No vessel of a greater draught than twelve feet should enter the harbour; and this vessel may even moor in four fathoms within her own length of the shore, with the outer trend just, shut in by the mangrove Point a. The watering-place is a stream that empties itself into the port through the man- groves, about two hundred yards to the south: and if this should fail, there is a good stream at the north end of the long north sandy beach. The latter, although very high coloured, is of wholesome quality; but in bad weather is inconvenient to be procured on account of the surf. Water for com- mon purposes of cooking may be had on a sandy beach a litde without hc entrance, but it is of t mineral qtality, and

�