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 3'72 APPENDIX, A, 'The above seem a be'all.that is worth tking from M. De See. V. Freyeinet's aeeount as res the navigation of Shark's W. Cast. Bay. ne eoasts of the barbours of Henry Freyeinet and Hamelin are much more detailed by him, and there is also much valuable information upon vcions heads, Portieu- larly as to meteorological observations, and the productions of the land and sea, and a curious example of the etfect of �' mirage.;" but as these subjects are irrelevant to the matter of this paper, they have been disregarded. -From PotsT EscA,*rz's to GASTnSAVMS BAY, the coast is formed by a precipitous range of rocky clitfs, rising abruptly from the sea, to the height perhaps of three or four- hundred feet. The coast is frlnged with an uninterrupted line ofbreakere. The summit of the land is so level, and �the coast so uniform, that no summits or 'points could be set �with any chance of recoffnizing them. The depth at ten miles off the shore, was between fifty ,and seventy fathoms, .decreasing to thirty-four in the neighbourhood qf Gan- theaurae Bay. GANTHEAUME BAY probably aifords shelter on its south side from S.W. winds: them was some appearance of .an opening in it, but Viaming, who sent a boat on shore here, has not mentioned it; and .if there is one, it is of very mall size, and unimportant. The shores of the bay are low .and of sterll appearance. RED POINT, a steep cliffy projection, is the north ex- tremity of st range of reddish-coloured clitfs, of about two hundred feet high, that extends to the southward for eight miles, when a sandy shore commences and continues with little variation, except occasional rocky projections and

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