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 S&ILd'NO DIREC'FIONS. 353 chantry sandy ami unproductive. Between 'C Borda and A Point.Emeriau is a bay ten miles deep, backed by very low Sect. IV*. sandy' land ;. and tlve miles 'further is another bay, that ap- N. West peared to be very shoal: thence the coast extends to the Cont. S.W. for. twenty-three miles to CAt, s BASEBiVXLLZ; it is lOW and sandy, like that to the northward, but the interior is higher, and with some appearance of vegetation. Thirteen miles from the. shore ore. the LACEPEDE ISLANDS; they are three in number, and surrounded by a reef nine miles long by live wide. They lie in a N.W. direction, and are two miles apart:. the northowesternmost is in latitude 16 �.40 , and longitude 122 �20': they' are low and slightly clothed.with bushes, and seem to be little more than the dry parts of the reef, on which a soil has been accumulated, and in time produced vegetation, These islands appear to be the haunt of prodigious numbers. of boobies. The variation is 0 � W. in latitude 16046 , and longitude 121 � 30', the French have placed n reef,'" BAc DEs BALmXS ;" which we did not approach near enough to see. Between Capes Baskerville and Berthoiler, is CARNOT BAY; it is six miles deep, and backed by low land. The bottom of the bay was not distinctly seen, but from the ap- pearance of the land behind the beach, it is not improbable that there may be a rivulet falling into it. �At POINT COULOMB, in latitude 17 �, where there is a range of dark red eliifs, the coast commences to present a more verdant and pleasing appearance than to the north: VOL. II. 9 A

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