?4 APPENDIX. A. q is a smell, brown, rocky shoed, that is not visible until Sect. 1I, close to it; it bears $. ?o E., four miles from the extremity ?. gsst of Cape Sidmouth. Coesto CAPE SIDMOUTH is uther an elevated point, having higher land behind it; and at about nine miles in the in- terior, to the W.lq.W., there is a rounded summit: at the extremity of the cape there are two remarkable lumps on the land, in latitude 13 � 20", and longitude 143 �. The cape is fronted by several rocky shoals, and ought not to be approached within four miles. r is a sand-bank, ou which we had two and a half fa- thoms; but from the nature of the other neighbouring reefs, 8 and t, it is perhaps rocky also, and may be connected with them. It lies four miles and a quarter N. 32 �from Cape $idmouth, and W. ? N. from islet ?. 6 j and ? are two bare sandy islets, situated at the north ends of reds extending in a N.N.W. direction; the reef off? the islet $]? is four miles and a half in length, and that off? ? is two miles and a half long: 64 is in latitude 13 �' 20 ?, longitude 143 � 30"; 7s in latitude 13 � 20', and gitude 1430 3(}' 8 end 9 are two low, woody islets of about a mile and quarter in diameter. Some shoal marks on the water were observed opposite theso islands, but their existence was not ascertained. Both the islets are surrounded by coral reefs, of small extent. NIGHT ISLAND, its north end in latitude 13 � 8", p?d longitude 143 .0 28' 40 ?, is a low. woody island, two
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