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 A, SCOTT'S STRAIT is a channel separating Biffe's Island Sect, IV'. from the main: it is thirteen miles long, and from three to 11. W,st one and a quarter broad. It is of irregular depth, and has some rocks in mid-channel, which are dry..' the depest channel is near the eastern shore, the depth being from ten to fourteen fathoms. The strait does not terminate until yot are to the westward of Cape Pond, for there are several islets off the south end of Biggs's Island, and a considerable reef, through which, although there may be deep channels, yet they must be narrow. Off the north-west end of Biggo's Island are severel rocky islets; the outer ones were sn by me in the Bathurst, (vol. ii. p. 42): they are the Manet lSLzS of Commodore Baudin; they consist of four or five prin* clpal islands, of about two miles in length, besides as magi more of very small size off the south extremity of the roup. The northern point of the northernmost island is in latitude 15 �15', and longitude 124 � 40". The group is fronted on the north-west side by a considerable reef, extending N.b.ErE. for seven miles! the outer edge being three miles and a half to the westward of the group. YORK SOUND is fourteen miles wide and ten deep: it is contained between Cape Pond and the northern extreme of the Coronation Islands. It is spacious, but the bottom, in the middle, is rocky: there is, however, very good an- chorage near the Coronation Islerods; and there is also, possibly, as good on the eastern shore to the suth of C,x*s PoNy, which has a,rocky island immediately off it, the situation of which is in latitude 14 � 20", and longi- tude 125 �25". At the bottom of York Sound is PRINCE FREDERIC'S HARBOUR, a fine spacious pert, fourteen miles long, and

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