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 310 APP.NDIX. �A. , for continuing the examination of the north coast, that it was' Se., III. found necessary to return to Port Jackson; and as he left N. Co,. it at the strait that separates Point Dale from Wesel's Islands, which is called in my chart Bs. owi's STRAIT, he saw no part of the coast to the westward of thal point, nor did he even see CalJe Wessel, the extremity ot' the range of Wessel's Islands, which terminate in latitude 10 �', and longitude 135 � 30". The group consists of four is]ands, besides some of smaller size to the southward of the north- ernmost, and also a few on the eastern side of Brown's Strait; one of which is Cunningham's Island, of Captain Flinders. CUIa.P.L.ND ST!..tI? iS in latitude 116 26', longitude 136 �. Pox? Did. n, unless it is upon an island, appear to be the east extremity of the north coast; its latitude is 11  .36', longitude 135 � there are several rocky islands of sm11 size, lying off, encompassed by a reef, which extends for eit miles N.N.E.tE. from the point. In Brown's Strait the tide ses at the rate of three and a half and four miles per hour; the flood runs to the southward through the strait. To the westward of Point Dale the coast extends for about sixty miles to the south-west to Casfiereagh Bay; in which space there are several openings in the beach, that are probably small rivers: one, te miles to the S.W., may be a strait insulating Point Dale, and communicating with Arnhem Ba. CASTLEIIEAGH BAY is fory miles wide, by about eighteen deep; it is fronted by a group of straggling islands of low coral formation, crowned with small trees and bushes; the centre of the northernmost islet is in latitude 11 � longitude 134 � 5'. To e eastward of Cpe Stewart,' the western head of the bay, the coast is very 'much in- Digitized by Googk

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