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 314' APPENDIX. A. usual, and for having a range of cliffs tO the southward (If Sect.lll..the point; with a Solitary tree near its extremity, hence the lq. oast. land is rocky towards De Courcy Head, which is a �iiy projection in latitude 11 � 30"; thence the shore continues rocky to Cape Cockbum, a low rocky point, with a conspi- cuous tree at its extremity.. The point is wooded to within a short distance of the sea, as is generally the case with the. shores of this coast. CA'n C0crBvmq is in latitude 11 �, and longitude 132 � 5". MOUNTNORRIS BAY extends between Cape Cock- bum and Cape Croker, it is twenty-eight miles wide, and twenty.three deep. It contains several islands, and is also fi'onted by a group, of which New Year's Island, the lati- tude of whose centre is 10 �, and longitude 133 �36", is the outermost; the others am named Oxley, Iwsan, �M'Cluer, Grant, Templar, and Cowlard. They are straggling, and have wide and apparently deep channels between them. Between New Year's and M'Cluer's Islands, the channel is nearly eight miles wide and eighteen and nineteen fathoms deep.- A reef extends off the north-west end of the latter ' island for nearly three miles, and the ground is rocky and shoal for some distance olF the north-east end of Oxley's Island. Grant's Island is higher than the others, which am merely small woody islets, the centre is in 11 �. At the north-east end of Mountnorris Bay is MALAY BAr, which is four miles wide and six deep; it affords good anchorage in four and five- fathoms in the centre: as it of- fared no other inducement, we did not land upon any Pe of it. Between Valentia Island and Point Anneslay, the channel is more than a mile wide and four fathoms deep. V'ALit]/'TIA ISLAID has a reef off its north Point, and an* �other off its south-east .point, each about a mile in extent.

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