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 304 APPENDIX. : A. Four miles to the north of x are two shoals y and z, both� Suet. H. of which are covered; y is two miles and a half long, N. East Z three miles and a quarter; neither of them appeared to be Coast. u mile in width; the north-west end of .z, when in a llne with Mount Adolphus, bears N. 19 � Off the north head of Newcastle Bay, .which forms the south-east trend of the land of Cape York, is u group ofh%h rocky islands, ALBANY ISLES; and immediately off the Point is a reef, which extends for about a mile; half a mile without its edge, we had ten fathoms. The islets 1, 13, and 15, were only seen .at a distance. THE BROTHERS, so called in Lieutenant Bligh's chart, are two high rocks upoa u reef. ALBANY ISLF contain six islands, of which one.only is of large size; the easternmost has a small peak, and a reef extends for less than a quarter of a mile from it; the peak is in latitude 10 � 45', and longitude 142 � 5". YORK ISLES is a group about seven miles from the main land; the principal island, which is not more than two miles long, has a very conspicuous fiat-topped hill upon it, MouT ADOLPIIUS, , in latitude 10 � 20", and longitude 142 � 25". elf the south-east end of this island are two rocky islets, the southernmost of which is more than a mile distant; the northern group of the York Isles are iald down from Captain Fliuders. CAPE YORK, the northernmost land of New South Wales, has a conical hill. half a mile within its extremity, �There is a bay on thewest side of Mount Adolphus, lint it up-

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