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 8AIIN DIRECTIONS. 2 and a half fathoms deep, but abreast the south end of the A. south-easternmost shoal there is ten and a half fathoms. 8act. l, a eirenlar coral reef, a mile and a half in diameter, with a dry rock at its east end, in latitude 12 �", and longitude 143 �. YOUNG ISLAND, a small islet on a coral reef of about half a mile in extent, in latitude 12 �50" ,d longitude 143 � (See Vol. i.p. 236.) m, a coral reef, about two nd a half miles long, having dry rock at its north end; it boars S. 40 � three miles from the summit of Haggeraton's Island. It, an extensive, irregular-shaped* Coral reef, seven miles long, and from one to four broad; it is separated from O by a narrow tortuous channel, but. not afe to pass through: both n and o are cov. ered. There is a safe pas- sage between these reefs and Haggerston's Island, of a mile and a half wide; but there is a small reef detached from the north-west end of n, which should be avoided, although there is probably sufficient depth of water over it for any ship: it was seen from the summit of the island, from whence another coral patch was observed at about one mile to the westward, of which we saw no signs. p is a small reef, of about a mile and a quarter in extent; it was seen from the summit of Haggerston's Island, as was also another reef, saran miles S.b.E. from it: the positions of these reefs are doubtful. HAGGERSTON'S ISLAND is high and rocky; the sum- mit is in latitude 12 �40", and longitude 143 �; it is situated at the S.S.W. extremity of a coral reef, of nearly

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