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  APPENDIX. A. if they do exist; of which, from the account of the F; Sect. IV. there can be but litde doubt. '. Y'et LOWIM'DAL ISLAMD find TILIMOUILL ISLAID were seen by us, but not any vestige of HILMXTn I9LAM'D, which the French have placed in their chart. From M. de FFeycinet*s account, the two.letter islands were seen at different ' � end since Trimouille Island has a reef extending. for five miles from its north-western extremity, as Hermite Island is described to have, there seems to be good reason to sap- .pose that.there is but one; had there been two, we should have seen it on passlng this pert in 1822 �From the-reasons.mentioned in the narrative, there re- mains no doubt in my mind that Barrow's Island, and Low- endel and Trimouille Islands, (which the French called the Montebello Islands), are the long lost TRYAL R)csrs. latitude and description answer very ex-tly; the longitude alone raises the doubt, but the reckonings of former navi- gaton cannot be depended upon, and errors of ten or twelve degrees of longitude were not rare, of which many proofs might be found, by comparing the situations of places for- merly determined with their position on the charts of the present time. Many old navigators were not' ver particular; and nev. gave the error of their account upon arriviug at their destined port, either from shame or Dom carelessness and indifference. A reef of rocks is said o exist in latitude 20 � 40", and Jongitude 114 � $". They were seen by Lieut. Ritchie, R. N., in the command of a merchant brig, us appears byan �mcount published in the Sydney GazeUe. EXMOUTH GULF termhates the North-west Cout of �Vide voL Lp.

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