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 $AILIN DIRECTIONS. but it s probable that they may be covered by the tide. The continuation of the shol between the islands and Point Sect. Lookout was not clearly ascertained. lq. East AC lOllF MURDOCH, which has a peaked hiii St its ewAmity, the hills ngahx approach the (ast; at Cape Bowen they project into e sea, and separate two Itys, in each of which there is possibly a. rivulet; that to the cast- ward of the cape trenda it and forms a deep bight.. Oa the western side of the hills of Cape Bowen there is a track of low land, separating them from another rocky ranKe. The turnmir of' the hilt at Point Murdocb is in latitude 14 �, and longitude 144 �. � 1tOWI(3K'S OROUP consists of ten or eleven islands, of which No. 1, remarkable for a hillock at its south*east end, is in latitude 14 � 40', and 1onffitude 144 �' 20"; it is nearly three miles long  the rest are all less than half a mile in extent, excepting the westernmost, No. 6, which is nearly &mite and a halfin diameter. The/)08age between 2 and 3*is se, and has seven and eight fathoms: the north*west side of 3 is of' rocky proacb, but the opposite side of the strait is bold to; the anchorage i8 tolerably ood. The. lermaid drove, but it. was not onsidered to be caused by the nature of the bot- tom, which is of' softsand, and free from rocks.. The channel between 1 and  appeared to IM very rocky, and shoal: between 1 and the reef r there is probably a clear channel of about a mile wide: the north*east end of 1 ho a reef' which extends off it For half a mile. and eastmud, of Howick's O. roup.--R,oe M,.
 * Many  partly dry, occupy ,tim space to the m,rthward'

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