COASTS OF SUST?SL?. 231 twenty miles, has also been su/fciently explored; but between the latter 'island and Port George the Fou?h, a distance of five hundred and ten miles, it yet ?matns almost unknown. The land that is laid down is nothin? more than an .archipelago of islands fronting the main land, the s/tuation o.f which is q=ite uncen?. Our examinatiorm of these islands were carried on as �far as Cape Viilater, but between that and De- 10uch Island the coast has only been see,, by the French, who merely occasionally saw snmdl de* tached portions o( it. At present, however, all is amjectnre; but the space is of cons/derabte extent, and if them is an opening into the terior of New Holland, it'i? in the v'?/nity of this part. Off the Buccaneer's Archipelago, the tide? are streog, and rise to the hei? of thirty. six feet. Whatever may exist behind these islands, 'which we were prevente? by our poverty in an, there at. cer?inly some openings of impo?,; ?md it is not at all improbable that there nmy be a communication at this part with the imerior Tim examimtioa d the western eoast was per. fomm? dm/ng an almost continued gale of wind, ?o that we had no opportunity of making any ? car?. ,a ob?erv?n upo? its shore?. There
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