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 '318 APPENDIX. A. u Dundns's 8trait, on account of �ernon's Isles, which lie in .Sect. Ill. mid channel, near its western end. ,N. Coat. The north eastern side of' Van Diemen's Gulf weshe the south side of Cobur Peninsula. It has several bays, end, .to the eastward of' MouTs BBDW'LL'and RoB, the shore is fronted by $ GmoB Hoi, B's ISLArDS, fonni a ebennel or port within them twenty miles deep end from three to six broad; the entrenee to it is round the north end of GXBBNHtLL ISt. AnD, which is separated from the lend of the peninsula, by a stndt a mile and a half' wide: the depth in mid-channel, for the shore on either side for half a mile is shoal end roeky, in eighteen hthonm, end withi it the bottom is six, seven, and eight fathoms'deep, end principally of' mud. This strait is in latitude 11 �.. The eastern side hs several openings in it, but the shore are very low, and of shl approach. At its south*east end ere the two (and probably three) Alligator Rivers; the westernmost (or centre) is fronted by FXBLD ISLAB'D, the ,centre of which is in 12 �htitude, and 132 � 10" longitude. These riven have been described in the nar- nitive. See roLl. p. 100,q. The bottom of the uif is very low, and forms two bights, selxtted by a point that projects f'or seven or eight miles. In the neighbourbood of the rivers the country is sprinkled with wooded hills, that extend in a stre!ing chain towards Wellink'ton Rang e, of which they might be considered a !rt; but betacan the rivers and Clarence Strait the coun- try is low and fiat, and only protected from inroads of the se by a hrrier of send hills, beyond which not a vestiL, e of the interior could be seen. CLARENCE STRAIT .eparates hthum ud Melville

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