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 SAILIN DIRECTIONS. from tlve to evea broad: it is terminated' by two riveet, . Hunter's and Rce' It has several reky islands mt Serf. eithor hore; and, at the bottom, they are numerous, Tim tide here rises at the sprins twentyine feet. The o ehoae is not so good n the entrenee of the port, but � good bottom may be found as soma as Hunter's River begi# to open, and bears E. iS., and when ou are wthin a small island that is in the centre of the port; but am anchorswe may very probably be obtained on the northern 8bore, indeed, any where out of the strength of the tides. HusTBs's Rxvs runs up for about fourteen miles, It is about one mile and a half wide at the entrance, and pre- serves that width lot more thm four nlee, when it 8nddenly contracts and becomes shoal, and very tortuous in its eoutse, and winds through a narrow chasm in the rocks, whi rise preeipitously in some pats for nt last two) or three hmdred feet. A vessel may anchor in seven fathoms near the end the first reach; its course is to tlm E.N.E. There is a remarkable rock at the entrance, in latitude 15 �30", and longitude 125 �. Ros's Rtvstt 6rst tnds for eeventeeu miles to the E.b.$., and then, taking a sudden turn to thu south, runs up for thirteen miles more; after wht(41 Jt tr8 to the $.E., and was su)l)OSed to run up foF at least ten nailes Farther. Its entrance FOF seven miles fomns a very good harbour, being from two to six fathoms deep; but, i anchor- iog here, it must be recollected tat the tide falls twenty*nine feet. This river, like Hunter's ]iver, i8 bounded on eithe bank by precipitous hills, which, in many Pe! are inac- cessible. Five miles to the 'wstward of Cape ToTtens it Point Hardy: o'd3e latter is an islet; and three Miles, N.h.E.E. frofit t, i8 a ree, on which he sea breaks. This point the tsot head  Poa? NLSOS, which extends M. the sou-

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