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 3 ' APPENDIX. A. BRUNSWICiE BAY is at the back of these islands, and fleet. IV. extends from OAf'S BSLZWSTEB, in latitude 15 �10", and N. West longitude 124 � 5*, which terminates Port Nelson, to Croat. Point Adieu. It is au extensive bay or sound, and is about tventy miles in extent with good anciiorago all over it. The coast is het very much indented by rivers and bays; among which may be particularized Prince Regent's River, Hanover Bay, and Port George the Fourth. PRINCE REGENTS RIVER is, without exception, the most remarkable feature of the North-West Coast. In general the inlets of this coast form extensive ports at their entrance; and, when they begin to assume me ohsranter of a river, their course becomes tortanus, and very irregular; of which there cannot be a better instance than the neigh- boating river, Roe*s River. Prince liegent's River trends into the interior in a S.E.b.E. direction for fifty-four miles, with scarcely a poist to intercept the view, after being thirteen miles within it. The entrance is formed by Caps Wellington on the east, and High Bluff on the west, a width of eight miles, but is so much contracted by islands, that, in hauling round Cape Wellington, the width is 'suddenly reduced to little more than a mile: at the branching off of Rothsay Water, it is little move than half a mile, and also the same width at the entranoe of St. George's Basin. In this space, however, it is iu some parts a little wider, but iu no part between projecting points is it more than one mile and a quarter. For the first nine miles the stream is nay- rowed by islands; beyond this, its boundaries are formad by the natural banks of the river. On the eastern side, within (ape Wellington, is a deep bay, but of shoal and rocky appearance. At six miles farther on are two inlets, ROTHSAY and MvsTslL WATSUS, near which he td$

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