To the sruth of Point Pearoe there !e a very extensive A. opening, whleh bad weather and other circumstances did Scot. n? allow of being examined.. It is nearly thirty miles wide, N'. West end the depth serous between eight fathoms and twenty. ?ne south shore is lined by a considerable reet? extending for seven miles from the bench. The land was very india- tinedy seen at the back, but, tn one part, there was a spaee of more than eighteen miles, in which nothing was visible. strength of the tide, the bottom being sand! instead of mud, us in other parts of tho nei�urhood, and the roeky over- falls on either side of the entrance bespeak this opening to be of eonside?blo size and importance. The shore to CAPE DOMETI ? wu very indistinctly seen. It oeeupies an extent ?f forty-five miles, and is fronted by extensive reefs, which project for twenty=three miles; the north extremity of the shoal water is twenty-six miles, nearly due west from Cape PeaFee. It termhates with a narrow point, and then trends in to the 8.W. towards the coast. The Medusa Bank fronts the entrance of Cambridge Oulf; it projects from the coast, near Cape Dometa, to the N.W. for seventeen miles, and terminates with a narrow spit, thirteen mile8 north from Lacrosse Island, in latitude � 14 �. Both these banks are of send, and their edges are very steep to. They are covered with large quan- rifles of mo/Af?a, which are also abundant in the se? in their vicinity. CAMBRIDOE GULF extends from Lacrosse Island in a 8.8. Westerly direction for sixty-four miles. The entrance, between Cape Domett and Oape Dussejour, is twelve miles wide; but Lacrosse Island, under which there is good
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