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 A. on the eat end, appeared to have some vewetti0u: the r,lm ile�1I. in wenoral were six or eight feet above the water, 8mi tim be. su broke violently' on the N.E. and S.E. point in view. ,Oed The shoal trends in a W.b.N. direction for si .or urea miles." It is distinguished on the chart by the name o ASHMORE'S SHOAL. SCOTT'S REEF (see Hotsburgh, vol. i. p. 102) was dis- covered by Captain Heywood, P N., in 1811: the north- west end is in latitude 13 �J', and longitude 121 � thence it extends S. 16 � for eighteen or nineteen miles to the north-east point, in latitude 14 � and longitude ]22 �; the sonth etent was not ascertained. It is ninety-seven miles due East from the situation assiued to Dqmpier'.s Rocks. The Cartier also struck upon a hereabouts, and Oaptaiu Horsburgh seems to thnk that ther is little doubt of Soott's Reef boil)$ the same that Damier tw, as well as thstt on which the (artier struck. ROWLEY'S SHOALS consist of three separate reefs, tho wasternmnst is the lmperieuso, the middle Clerko's, and dm northeasternmost the Mermaid*s. The lmperiense is ten miles in length from Booth to south, and its greatest hroadth five uMles: it is surrounded by ver deep water, and near the eastern eds, in latitude 17 �, and 1on, tudq !!8 �, ave some dry rocks. (lerke*s Shoal (sonth end in latitude 17 �, longitude 119 � extemds to dm .north-war, and probably joins tim Minstrel's Shoal which is described below, and, if this is the case, trends N.N.W.JW. for seventeen ms. The south end  Mer- maid*s Shoal is in 17 �' S., and 119 � E., and extends to the northward for seven miles; but its termination in tJmt dimcttm was not Men, Tim edsM ot' 11 these mes

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