310 APP?.NDIX. �A. , for continuing the examination of the north coast, that it was' Se?., III. found necessary to return to Port Jackson; and as he left N. Co?,?. it at the strait that separates Point? Dale from Wes?el's Islands, which is called in my chart Bs. owi's STRAIT, he saw no part of the coast to the westward of thal? point, nor did he even see CalJe Wessel, the extremity ot' the range of Wessel's Islands, which terminate in latitude 10 �', and longitude 135 � 30". The group consists of four is]ands, besides some of smaller size to the southward of the north- ernmost, and also a few on the eastern side of Brown's Strait; one of which is Cunningham's Island, of Captain Flinders. CUIa?.P.L?.ND ST!?..tI? iS in latitude 116 26', longitude 136 �. Pox?? Did. n, unless it is upon an island, appear? to be the east extremity of the north coast; its latitude is 11 ? .36', longitude 135 � there are several rocky islands of sm?11 size, lying off, encompassed by a reef, which extends for ei?t miles N.N.E.?tE. from the point. In Brown's Strait the tide se?s at the rate of three and a half and four miles per hour; the flood runs to the southward through the strait. To the westward of Point Dale the coast extends for about sixty miles to the south-west to Casfiereagh Bay; in which space there are several openings in the beach, that are probably small rivers: one, te? miles to the S.W., may be a strait insulating Point Dale, and communicating with Arnhem Ba. CASTLEIIEAGH BAY is for?y miles wide, by about eighteen deep; it is fronted by a group of straggling islands of low coral formation, crowned with small trees and bushes; the centre of the northernmost islet is in latitude 11 � longitude 134 � 5'. To ?e eastward of C?pe Stewart,' the western head of the bay, the coast is very 'much in- Digitized by Googk
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