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 3J APPgIDIX. A. th( eeltit of* the bty, vhere ther it  #*pm to nine fbet. IV. hthoms mud, and the seam has ee access: bt, if N. West t more abitered place is required, such may be found at Cts�. the m)eth-est comet or the bottom of tb bay in six vou Fathoms, mud. High water et full and ebang piece in the eastern entrance, at t quarter past nine the tide rbes about nix eet. JAP. ISLAWD is surrounded by !C8, ]Mir tO th9 ward of it the channel is twelve Fathoms deep. iU summit is in latitudo 14 �10 , !).itude 126 � 40% The western ,id of Vansittart Bay is formal by t peninsula, the extremity of which is Cape imginville; the nordtern imrt of this lead is fonted by a reef, that extends round it for' three miles from the shore, but tim wentertl side nppoared to bo of bold &pprouch. TIM reef commences at Ope Bon- 8xinville, and trends maud tO Point Gibson, where it terml- auren. This part of the eout is fonted by exteneive reefs, which render the ap!. tO it very dangerous: at sixteen miles to tim not. ward of the eupe there in n rsmge, the HOLTHYB, IA BA.1W. KS, that extend in un east and west feetion for twnt-tbree miles; their Dorth-eaSt extent was not ascertained, but the western end, in latinode 13 �, and longitude 19 � 45', it liurow, mid not more than five six miis broad. There is another range of reefs to the westward of cape, that extends in a north and south direction for upwards of twnuty nailes; and tbout froin three to five miles broad. The water breaks on many parts of it. Its north extre- mity, in latitude 13 �', is nixteen miles W.N. from Troughsou Island: in this space the Belt is quite clear, Mid ritual sixteen tO twenty Fathoms deep. The narroweat part of the ehemtd, between tho reef. end the peninsula, is at

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