? APPENDIX. A. was four fsthoms; but on many parts there ure not mote Sect. H. than three fathoms. Variation ?o 38' W. Co?st. PRINCE OF WALES's ISLANDS are much intersected " by straits and open. ings, that are very little known; there wu an appearance of u good port, u little to the S.W. HOltWED HXLL, (latitude l0 � 35"�gitude 142 �,) which may probably communicate with WoWs Bay; the strait to the south of Wednesday Island also offers port in the eastern entrance of some rocky islands and without' them is the rock b, with some sunken dunkers near it. WEDNESDAY ISLAND; its north end, in lat. 10 � 10', and longitude 142 �, may be approached dose, but a con* siderable shoal s?etches off its western side, the greater part of which is dry. Off HAJfJfOMD*S ISLAMD is a high, conspicuous roe. k, bearing W.?S., and five miles and throe-quarters from the north end of Wednesday Island. Captain Flindera passed through the strait separating Wednesday Island from Ham- mond's Islands, and had four, five, and six fathoms. Abreast of the strait separating GooD's ISLAND from the latter is the reef C, on which are several dry rocks, but abreast of it, and one mile and one quarter from it, is the reef d e, which is generally covered; the latter bears 5. �d consists of three small detached patches, that extend farther oW than is at first ohMfred. There in also a narrow strip of reeh mitttrading fo? a shqrt distance of the nortla-e?mt end of the roof oS* Hammm?s Island.--?e
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