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 SAILING DIRONS. 289 On the eastern side of the northernmost island there A. is a bay fronted by a coral reef, but it is too.exposed Sect. H.. to the prevailing winds to be safe. It is hem that the N. East Frederick (merchant ship) was wrecked in 1818.. Coast. CAPE FLIlIDERS, in latitude 14 � longitude 144 � 20", is the north extremity of the island; it may be passed close to with twelve fathoms: the best anchorage is under the fiat-topped hill, at a quarter of a mile from the shore, in ten fathoms mud. The variation is 5 � E. It is high water at full, and change at a quarter past nine. In the offing is a low wooded island of more than a mile in diameter. CLACK'S ISLAND is a high rock, situated at the south- east end of reef b, in latitude 14 �4/*, and longitude 144 � 45', and, being a bare black rock, with no ap- parent vegetation, is it conspicuous object: there is another rock on its north-east end. �(See vol. ii. p. 25.) The reefis of circular shape, and three miles in diameter. The shoal marked a was not seen by us. H.M. sloop Satellite struck upon it in June, 1822, on her passage to India. The following marks for it were obligingly comma= nieated to me by Captain M. J. Carrie, of H. M. sloop Satellite, who sent a boat to examine it upon her second voyage the following year :-- "In crossing the northern part of Bathurst Bay, and nearly in mid-channel, between Cape Flinders and the low wooded island, there is a small patch of sunken rocks, lying north and south, not more than a cable's length in extent, the least water being one fathom. The Satellite grounded on them in two fathoms, in June, 1822. I sent a boat to ex- amine his shoal in making the same passage in August, Vo. II. U

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