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 APPENDIX. A. To the westward of this, the land appeared to be less con- Beet. IV, tinuous, and to be formed by n mass of islands separated lq. We by deep and narrow straits, through some of which the tide was observed to rush with considerable strength, foaming and curling in its stream, as if it were rushing through a bed of rocks: this was prtieularly observed among the islands to the south of Maeleay's Islands. After extending for thirty miles farther to the $.W., the land terminates evidently in islands, which then trend to the S.E.; and to the westward they are separated from Cygnet Bay, and the land to the southward of it by a strait five or six leagues wide. The narrowest part of this strait is at Point 3un- nlngham, where it is twelve miles wide; two=thirds over to the islands are two rocky islets, which bear due south from Sunday Strait. MOTOOMZV ISLAIDS, a roup of' seven islets on the eastern side of this extensive range of islands, which are named BUCCANEER'S ARCHIPELAGO, are low and of small extent, particularly the six easternmost, none of whieh are a mile long: the westernmost, which has an extensive reef stretching to the N.W., is more than three miles in dia- meter, and appears to be of different formation to the other, being low and fiat, whilst the rest are scareely better than a heap of stones, slighdy clothed with vegetation. Between the easternmost islet and the land, there is a strait of a league in width. The tide prevented our trying its depth: a league and a half to the north-west, at high=water, we had irregular soundings between ten and sixteen fathoms, but six fathoms must be' deducted from it to reduce it to 1he' depth at low water. Three leagues to the north-west of Montomery*s west- ernmost island are COCKILL'S ISLES, tWO in uumbeF, low and

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