298 APPENDIX. A. the reef is perhaps three or four miles wide, but its eastern Sect. II. termination was not clearly distinguished. N. l?--t ceu? f is a small reef, about three miles S.W. from QUOIN ISLAND, which is a small wedge-shaped rock: it is in the neighbourbood of this reef that the merchant ship, Morning Star, was lost. Quoin Island is in latitude 12 �, and longitude 143 � $0 ?. g is a coral reef, ten miles long, and from one to two broad; having a dry rock upon it, (in latitude 12 � 20", and lon- gitude 143 � 35",) about three miles from its north end. FORBES'S ISLANDS are high and rocky, but appeared w be clothed with vegetation; the group occupies a spane of about two mileL The summit of Forhes's Island is in latitude 12 � 35', and longitude 143 � 50". h, a coral reef, with some dry rocks near its north end, is about one mile long, and separated from i by a narrow pass. The south end of h- bears from the summit of Forbes's �Island W. � S. seven miles. i and k, coral reefs, lying N.W., having a very narrow channel between them; the former is covered, but the latter has a dry sandy key at its north-west end, in lat. 12 � 20"; and longitude 143 � 5". PIPER'S ISLETS are four low bushy islets upon two circular reefs, with a passage separating them of a quarter of a mile wide; the reefs have each two islets upon them, and a dry rocky key round their western edge: the centre of the narrowest part of the channel between them is twelve
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