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 3' APPENDIX. A. anchorage for vesela going in or out of the gulf, divides Sect. IV. the entrance into two channels. The western. entrance is 'N. West about two miles and a half wide, and is deepest.near the out. island; but, at a mile from the shore, we had no bottom with. fourteen. and seventeen fathoms. The reef project from. Cape Dussejqur for nearly three miles. On the eastern side of Lacrosse Island, within half a mile of. the point, we had seven fathoms, and there was every appear- ance of the channel being deep in the neighbourhood of ape Domett. Shakspeare Hill, the situation of which is in latitude 14 � 5ff, and 'longitude 128 �, is a conspicuous object on this promontory; it is high and rocky, and, at a distance, has the appearance of being insu- lated, like Lacrosse Island. Having entered .the gulf, it trends to the S.S.W. for twenty-three miles to Adolphus Island, where it is divided into two arms, of which the westernmost is the principal. At ten miles from Lacrosse Island, the chaunel is narrowed by shoals to a width of five miles, the shore being twelve miles apart. The !and on the western side of the gulf is high and rocky; but the opposite shore ia very low, and parently marshy. The bottom is of sand, as are the banks on eithe r side, and affords good anchorage; the tide stream runs with great strength in mid-channel, but is easily' avoided bY anchoring upon the weather shore near the edge of the bank. The c. hannels on either side of Adolphus Island are called the East and West Arms. The East Arm is from one to two miles and a half wide, and four or five fathoms deep. At ten miles it is joined by an arm that washes the south side of Adolphus .Island, and.the united streams trend together in a S..E. direction, under the foot of Mount Con- nexiou, for a considerable distance. This.inlet was not

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