Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/300

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soathammost'island,' but Ma?er to the shore, is .a reef ? A. rocks which dry at low water. .ae? II. N. Ea? Frma DOUBLE POINT, {latitude of its lammit'17 � Coast. .50?,) to CAPE GI?AFTON, the coast is furmad by a so? eession of sandy bays and projeetifig rooky points, latitudo 17 �, in the centre of a sandy buy, is a small openin S like .a rivubtj and, on the south side of Point Cooper i? another j but neithor aplMared to be navigable for boats. Abreast of Frankland*s Islands, and near the sottth end of a sandy bay of six miles in extent, there is another opening like a river, that, from the appearance of the land behind? which is low and of a verdant charaCter, may be of considerable size. The hiwh mountains to the southward, Belleaden Ker's Kange must give rise to a considerable stream.; and it aplMars very probable that this may be one of the outlets, but the most considerable is, perhaps, that which falls into Trinity Bay round Cape (}raftou. FRANKLA.ND'S ISLANDS consist of several low islets one of which. is detached and of hiwher charaCter tlmn the others, which are very 16w, and connected by a reef. The largest island may be seen ?ve or six leagues off; it is in latitude 17 � The land between. this 'and Calm (}refton is hish, 'and towards the north has ,several remarkable peaks. .The land of C?tlm (}rafton may be readily known, when seen from the southward, by appearin? like three forty islands,, the outermost is Fitzroy Island, but th.e others arm hitlp upon the main. The easternmost of' the latter, (?ape (?afton, compiouous for hayins two small peaks, like notches, on,the .west extremity of its summit; it is joined to the westerns most by low land, which also separat(?s .tbe latter from T?