'318 APPENDIX. A. u Dundns's 8trait, on account of �ernon's Isles, which lie in .Sect. Ill. mid channel, near its western end. ,N. Coat. The north eastern side of' Van Diemen's Gulf weshe the south side of Cobur? Peninsula. It has several bays, end, .to the eastward of' Mou?Ts BBDW'?LL'and RoB, the shore is fronted by $? Gm?oB Hoi, B's ISLA?rDS, fonni? a ebennel or port within them twenty miles deep end from three to six broad; the entrenee to it is round the north end of GXBBNHtLL ISt. AnD, which is separated from the lend of the peninsula, by a stndt a mile and a half' wide: the depth in mid-channel, for the shore on either side for half a mile is shoal end roeky, in eighteen hthonm, end withi? it the bottom is six, seven, and eight fathoms'deep, end principally of' mud. This strait is in latitude 11 �.. The eastern side hs several openings in it, but the shore? are very low, and of sh?l approach. At its south*east end ere the two (and probably three) Alligator Rivers; the westernmost (or centre) is fronted by FXBLD ISLAB'D, the ,centre of which is in 12 �htitude, and 132 � 10" longitude. These riven have been described in the nar- nitive. See roLl. p. 100,?q. The bottom of the ?uif is very low, and forms two bights, selx?tted by a point that projects f'or seven or eight miles. In the neighbourbood of the rivers the country is sprinkled with wooded hills, that extend in a stre?!ing chain towards Wellink'ton Rang e, of which they might be considered a !?rt; but betacan the rivers and Clarence Strait the coun- try is low and fiat, and only protected from inroads of the se? by a hrrier of send hills, beyond which not a vestiL, e of the interior could be seen. CLARENCE STRAIT .eparates hthum ud Melville
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