8AILING DIRECTIONS. 295 miles long, but not more than half a mile wide; it is sur- A. rounded by a coral reef, that does not extend more than a fiest. ?I. quarter of a mile from its northern end. On the south side, and within it, the space seemed to be much' occupied by reefs, but they were not distinctly made out, on account of the thickness of the weather. There was also the'appear- ance of a covered shoal, bearing N. 55 �from the north end of the island, distant four miles*. U and W are two reefs; the former, which was dry. when we passed, lies six miles N. 18 �from the north end of Night Island; there is also a small rock detached from it, which is, not visible until close to it. V is a covered coral reef, of about a mile and st quarter in extent; its centre is in 13 �latitude. SHERRARD'S ISLETS are low and bushy, and sur- rounded by a rocky shoal extending for a mile to the S.E.; the south-westernmost is in 1.2 � 10" latitude, and 143 � 15' longitude. l0 is a low wooded islet, in latitude 12 � 10", on a reef ot; small extent; abreast of it is a rocky islet, lying �about a mile and a half south from CAPE DIRECTION; off its east end is a smaller rock. The coast between Cape Sialmouth and 'Cape Direction is rather high, and the .shore is formed by a sandy beach. Ten miles N.W. from the former cape is an opening in the'hills; the high !and then continues to the northward to Cape Di-
- Observed many shoals to the ]q.W. of ]qight Island; one
bore E.i?.E., two miles and a half from it3 north point; we saw much shoal water to seaw?trd.--Roe
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