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 '4 APPENDIX, A under the summit; with the high northernmost of the Di. Sect. IL rection Islands in sight over the low land, bearing about N. Fasb S.W.. by compass: the depth is six and seven feLoms sandy Ct. bottom. The variation here is 6 �East. TURTLE GROUP is four miles to the north of Point Look-, out; the islets are encircled by a horse-shoe shaped coral reef, and consist of six islands, all low and bushy. These islands are not laid down with sufficient accuracy as to their relative positions. n is a low wooded island about eleven miles west from Lizard Island; no reef was 8an to project from it; it is in the meridian of the observeLtory of Endearour River; and in !eLtitude 14 �. O is eL small coral reef; it lies eL mile eut a hal N. 64 � 'from the north end of n. p is a coral reef, about s mile ht extent) separated trom o by a channel of eL mile wide. q, a reef, on which are two low wooded isles, eLpparently connected with . shoal extending from ]Point Lookout along the shore to the W.N.W.; the is]es are seven miles q. 64 � from Point Lookout. COLES ISLANDS consist of four small bushy islets from a quarter to half eL mile in extent; they are from four to six miles 1%LE. trom Point Murdoch. This group up- peered to be merely the several dry parts of the shoal that extends from Point Lookout to Noble Island; between them and the latter iland, are. two patches o dr sandy keys,

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