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 To the sruth of Point Pearoe there !e a very extensive A. opening, whleh bad weather and other circumstances did Scot. n allow of being examined.. It is nearly thirty miles wide, N'. West end the depth serous between eight fathoms and twenty. ne south shore is lined by a considerable reet extending for seven miles from the bench. The land was very india- tinedy seen at the back, but, tn one part, there was a spaee of more than eighteen miles, in which nothing was visible. strength of the tide, the bottom being sand! instead of mud, us in other parts of tho nei�urhood, and the roeky over- falls on either side of the entrance bespeak this opening to be of eonsideblo size and importance. The shore to CAPE DOMETI  wu very indistinctly seen. It oeeupies an extent f forty-five miles, and is fronted by extensive reefs, which project for twenty=three miles; the north extremity of the shoal water is twenty-six miles, nearly due west from Cape PeaFee. It termhates with a narrow point, and then trends in to the 8.W. towards the coast. The Medusa Bank fronts the entrance of Cambridge Oulf; it projects from the coast, near Cape Dometa, to the N.W. for seventeen miles, and terminates with a narrow spit, thirteen mile8 north from Lacrosse Island, in latitude � 14 �. Both these banks are of send, and their edges are very steep to. They are covered with large quan- rifles of mo/Afa, which are also abundant in the se in their vicinity. CAMBRIDOE GULF extends from Lacrosse Island in a 8.8. Westerly direction for sixty-four miles. The entrance, between Cape Domett and Oape Dussejour, is twelve miles wide; but Lacrosse Island, under which there is good

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