Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/357

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? . A PPF. NDIX. A. commences at Cape Londonderry, ami projects from the Sect. IV. shore for nearly five miles, but to the eastward of the cape N'.'?eet a ship may approach it within two miles. To the south of Cape Talbot the !and trends in and forms a bay twelve miles deep, and wide, that was not examland. It is fronted by SIR GRAHAM MOORE'S ISLANDS, one of which is eight miles long, and low, excepting at the east and, where there is a fiat-topped hill; there is also other remarkable summit on n smaller island, to the north of the principal island. At twenty miles W.S.W. from Cape Talbot is the east en- trance of VANSI?'FART BAY; it is formed between MA?LY ISLASD and the easternmost of the Ecrn, s? IsLss, (Long Island ;) but this space, which is nearly three miles wide, is much occupied by rocks, so that it is contracted to the width of little more than half a mile. The channel to this is between two extensive reefs, the in- netmast of which commences at e?ght miles to the westward of Cape Talbot, and extends along Sir Graham Moore's Islands to Mary Island. The outer reef commences at about twelve miles from the cape, and extends to the westward, embracing Jor?ss's ISLAND (in latitude 13 � and longitude 126 �), and the Eclipse Isles. The passage is from three and a half to five miles wide, and is deep and free from danger. The bottom is rocky until within five miles of the Eclipse 'Islands, when good anchorage may be obtained in five and si? thorns, upon a muddy bottom. , The entrance is betwean Middle Rock, and u plteh of dry rocks to the eastward of Long Rocks, the disramco