2?4 APPENDIX. A. In pasaiug SHOAL POINT, in latitude 21 �5", 1ongi- . S?t. II. Jude 149 �40", Captain Cook's ship got into shoal water, N. Eut and at one time had as little as three fathoms (Hawkesworth, vol. iii. p. 131); and the merchant ship Lady Elliot, in the year 1815, met with a sand bank extending from the island off the point in a north-east d?rection for ten miles, on one port of which she found only nine feet water. The Mermaid passed the point at the distance of three miles, and, when the island bore S. 68 ? W., distant two miles ?/nd a half, had four and three-quarter fathoms, which w? the least water that was found, but, being then high water, .five or six feet, if not more, may be deducted, to reduce it to' the proper low water sounding. There was no appearance of shoaler water near us, and it is probable th?tt Captain Cook's and the Lady Elllot's tracks were farther off shore. The variation of the compass, six miles east'of Point $1ade, was 7 �' East. CAPE HILSBOROUGH is a projection terminating in a bluff point in latitude 20 �' 40", and longitude 149 � 15": being high land, it may be seen seven or eight leagoes off. The variation here is 6 � E. The CUMBERLAND ISLES extend between the parallels of 20 � 21 � and consist, generallI, of ?levated, rocky islands; they are all abundantly wooded, particularly with pines, which grow to a later size than at the Percy Isles. We did not land upon any of them; they appeared to be of bold approach, and not dangerous to navigate amongst; they .are from six to eight hundred feet high, and ?ome of the peaks on the northern island are much higher. k 1 (latitude 21 �40', longitude 149 � 25' 7 is about three-quarters of a mile in diameter; it is of peaked shape; at three-quarter? of a mile off its south-east end, there is a dry rocky lump.
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