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 10 .APPENDIX. A. ] 823, end found it to be under the.following bea_4ngs (by Sect. II. compass): v/z, Cape Flinders, S.W.b.W.W.; the high N. East peak on the south-east. part of Fiinders's Group, $.  W.; Coast. the highest of Clack's Islands, N.W.W. and Cape Melville, E. r S. It is a dangerous shoal in running for Cape Flin- ders, but may be easily av. oided by steering near the low wooded island, to the north-east of the cape, or by keeping the shore of Flinders's Group on board, which is perhaps preferable. The variation is 5 � East*." PRINCESS CHARLOTTE'S BAY is an extensive bight ip the coast, twenty-two miles deep, end thirtyone broad; its shores are low, and at the bottom, in latitude 14 �, there is a mangrove opening. JANE'8 TABLE LAND, in.latitude 14 � 15', and'lon- gitude 144 �45", is a remarkable fiat. topped hill at the �bottom of the bay, rising abruptly from the surrounding low lend: it is about five miles from the coast; its summit, by the angle it subtended, is about a mile in length. Excepting this hill, no other high land was seen at the bottom of the bay. On the wtern side the land rises to a moderate height, �and forms a bank of about ten miles in extent, but thi was not visible for more than three or four leagues. To the north of this no part of the interior can be seen until in latitude 13 �, when the south end of a ridge.of hills com- mences at about seven miles behind the beach, which it gradually approaches until it reaches the coast in 13 �, �The shoal is in a line with, and half wy between, the fish topped bill on the north island of Fiinders's Group, and the centre ef the low wooded island, and is nearly joined to some shoal.wter that extends for two miles from the latter islend.--Roe MS.

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