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 SAILING DIRECTIONS. 373 sometimes rocky bays, as far as Cape Burney. The coast is A. moderately high, and, in the interior, some hills of an un- 8eez. V. usual height for this part of the coast are seen. MovsT W. Coast. NATOnALISTZ i8 in latitude 28 �, and between the la- titudes 28 � and 28 �, is Mo.snY's FLAT-TOPPeD RA.Og. It iS terminated at the north end by three hills, called MzxAx HxLLs; and at the southern end, by the Wxz aD HXLLS. MotraT F mr x is in latitude 28 � 30", and longitude 114 � 45". The coast in front of this range is of pleasing and verdant appearance; two or three small openings in the sandy beach, with an evident separation in' the hills behind, particularly one in latitude 28 �, bore indications of rivulets; and the smokes of natives' fires, and the more wooded character of the coast, shewed that the country was evidently more fertile and produo. five than aur other part between Cape Leeuwin and the North-west Cape. The boattom at from ten to twelve miles off, is from twenty to twenty-five fathoms deep, and composed of a fine sand, of a dtrk gray.colour. CAPE BURNEY is in latitude 28 �: four miles to the southward is a reef, apparently deched from the ., shore. * HOUTMAN'S ABROHLOS. The old Dutch charts give a very considerable extent to this reef; Van Keulen makes it cover a space of sea, forty-seven m. ales long, and twenty- five broad., We only saw the islands at the south end, with three detached reefs between them and the shore; one of which (the southernmost) may probably be the TvaTx. s Dow. The islands lie W: 4 �true, forty-one miles from Cape Burney, but the channel (OzzLvsx (8ANZL) be"* tweeU the shore and the reefs, is not more than twcutyosi

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