$AILIN? DIRECTIONS. but it ?s probable that they may be covered by the tide. The continuation of the sho?l between the islands and Point Sect. Lookout was not clearly ascertained. lq. East AC l?Oll?F MURDOCH, which has a peaked hiii St its e?wA?mity, the hills ngahx approach the (?ast; at Cape Bowen they project into ?e sea, and separate two I?tys, in each of which there is possibly a. rivulet; that to the cast- ward of the cape trenda i?t and forms a deep bight.. Oa the western side of the hills of Cape Bowen there is a track of low land, separating them from another rocky ranKe. The turnmir of' the hilt at Point Murdocb is in latitude 14 �, and longitude 144 �. � 1tOWI(3K'S OROUP consists of ten or eleven islands, of which No. 1, remarkable for a hillock at its south*east end, is in latitude 14 � 40', and 1onffitude 144 �' ?20"; it is nearly three miles long ? the rest are all less than half a mile in extent, excepting the westernmost, No. 6, which is nearly &mite and a halfin diameter. The/)0?8age between ?2 and 3*is s?e, and has seven and eight fathoms: the north*west side of 3 is of' rocky proacb, but the opposite side of the strait is bold to; the anchorage i8 tolerably ?ood. The. ?lermaid drove, but it. was not ?onsidered to be caused by the nature of the bot- tom, which is of' softsand, and free from rocks.. The channel between 1 and ? appeared to IM very rocky, and shoal: between 1 and the reef r there is probably a clear channel of about a mile wide: the north*east end of 1 ho? a reef' which extends off it For half a mile.
- Many ? partly dry, occupy ,tim space to the m,rthward'
and eastmud, of Howick's O. roup.--R,oe M,?.
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