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 $AILIN DIRBIrlONS. 4 end of Iiyam Martin's Island are several smaller islets and A. earal reefs j the latter e.xtead from it for more than six miles: Beet. the north.westernmost of these islets is the !and Been in 1801 N. W#t by Oapi Heywood, and was called by him Vulcan Point: RBD ISLAND, which he also saw, is eight miles to the west- ward; it is in latitude 1 � lb #, and long. 124 � 4ff i: between it and Cbempaguy Isles the ebblag tide uncovered several extensive reefs. Ten miles N. 26 �from Red Island, and S. 710 W. from Freycinet*s Island, is a dr nnd-bank surrounded by a reef. DBOBItAWDO ISLAND, SO called bythe French, is the south- eramost of theCHAMPAGNY ISLES: considerable reefs extesd off i*- south end, which are d at low water; its centre ie in latitude 15�45 ", and longitude 124 a 13' lff . CAMDIN BAY is formed between Byam Martin's Island and Pratt's Islands, and extends to the eastward to Roger's Strait  it is twelve miles deep and sight wide. HeFe the tide rose and fell thirty-seven feet and a half the age being nineteen days. High water took place thirteen minutes after the' moon's transit. Between Camden Bay and Point Swan, a distance of ninety miles, the main land falls' baok, and forms a very oonsiderable opening fronted by a multitude of islands, islets, and reefs, into whioh, from our loss of anehors, we we m not ttble to penetrate. From Camden Bay the islands, for the aoast seemed too irregular to be tho main-land, extend in a range in a south direction for more than ffty- fjvqe miles, to where them appeared to be a deep opening, or strait, from three to five miles wide. An irregular line of coast then appeared to extend for seven leagues to e q,W., and tfterwrds to the westward for five or six leagues.

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