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 SAILING DIR'F[ONS. 351 tatde 12 10' frmn the northu'd it has tho appeurnne of hei an island, us the land to the westward is rther lower ! Seer, IV', two mils and a half south of it is Carlisle Head, the north N, West oatremlty of OOODBJOUdH BAY. Tim shore thenco atentis in st $.S.E. direction for seventeen miles, in which spree there is t shoal bay, beard which we did not penetrate, Off the point is an islet, in latitude about l{J �, and to the bouth st it the land *s seet trending to the $,b.l. For four or ve miles, when it was 10st in distance. From this Mehorage no !and Was did- tintly seen to the eastward; between the bearings of E.N.E. and 8,8.]t.., a slight glimmering of land was raised aboye the horison by the eeet of refraction; but this, as in a ease that occurred before in u neighbouring part off Point Gan, theuume, might be at least ff miles off. Prom 811 that is at present known of this remarkable opening, there is enough to excite the greatest interest; since, from the extent of the opening, the rapidity of the stream, and he eat rise nnd fall of the tides, there must he st very extensive gulf or opening, total! different fro evut'y thing that hnf been before seen. There is also good reason to adspeet that the land tween Cape Lvque and Point (3anthetum is an i-lad and if so, the mouth of this opening i8 eight mle8 wide besides, Who is to say that the land even of Cape �illaret may not also be  island? The French expeditiofi only a&w sm11 portions of the coast to the [outhward; but it does ot nppear probable that the opening extends to the south, ward of Cape �ilhret. (See vol. it. p. Thirty-three miles'in f N. 14 �dieetlon from the summit of CtJlreili Island is AI)LE 1SLANt). It is low, and merely covered wi s few shrube and is about three

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