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 '316 APPENDIX. A. High Point the depth is not more than three fathoms amd a $ec.t. HI. half. The anchorae is however quite safe� �N. COast.' The bay to the eastward of Point Smith, which has a reef extending from it for nearly a mile, has a shoal opening at its bottom of Very little importance. At the north-east end of the bay, separated from the point by a channel a mile wide, and more than five fathoms deep, is a small sandy island; with a reef extending for a mile off its north end. PORT ESSINGTON, the outer heads of which, Vashon Head and Point Smith, are seven miles apart, is an exten- sive port, thirteen miles and a quarter deep, and from tlve to three wide; independent of its Inner Harbour, which, with a' navigable entrance of a mile wide, is live miles deep and four wide. The port is not only capacious, but has very few shoals or dangers in it. On the western side, off Island Point, there are same rocks, and also a reef projects for a mile off the bluff point that forms the east head of Knocker's Bay. The western side of the entrance to Inner Harbour, is also rocky and shoal for two-thirds across, but near the opposite point* the depth is thirteen fathoms. �On the eastern side of the port there is no danger beyond a quarter of a mile from the shore, excepting a reef of rocks, some of which are dry; this danger, when in a line with a remarkable cliff two miles and a quarter to the south of Table Point, bears E.S.E.E.; close without them the depth is five fathoms. The Iss- Hsov is divided into two basins .which extend in for two miles on either side of Middle Head, a cliffy projection, surrounded by a rocky shore for a quarter ' This is Point Record of Captain Bremer, see vol. ii. p 6.

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