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 $A ILIN DIREL'!ON$. 75 ddightly wooded, and lined with reefs, that in some places. extend ;er two mit from the shore. O/i CAZ, B LEeCHE- Sect. MA7L?(In latitude 31 � is'a reef, �ug six miles and a !mir fvom the shm'e; it appeared to be connected with the leks'that line the coast. The following aceonnt of SWAN RIVER is. taken from ' Captain De Freyeinefs account of Baudin's voyage (p. 17, et seq.) "The mouth of Swnn River is in latitude $o 4' 31 , end longitude 113 �3' 28" Fast of Paris, or (115 � 43'' East of Oreenwich.) The ehannel is obsWdeted b.y abar of rocks, whieh it is very diflicult to pass over, and, indeed, impractlea. hie if the wind blows from the sea. On entering, te passage is on the btarboard side: it is narrow and shoal, and divided into two e!mnels, in each of which there is from flys to six feet of water; after passing this, them is seven end eight feet: the course mast then be towards the west, to avoid-two shoals, which are upon the ight bank: after huif �mile the navigation is free, and in mid-channel the depth is not less then seven, eight, and nine feet. The river theu trends in a northerly direction for seven miles, without any sinuosity of consequence. On the eastern bunk, ave twe shoals; the passage is then on the opposite side of the river, the depth of which is eight feet: beyond these banks the course of the fiver trends to the eastward towards �low point, upon which here i a solitary tree; an -extensive beak frenta tbib point, and the channel continues on the westom shore, te feet deep. liere the river is & mile broad; it then inereasce i width, and forms spacious bays on either side, were not examined. -To the S.E. is an opening, which may probably be an arm of the river; it- was alled MozAU JLZ?; it was not examined. Opposite to it is a sharp

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