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3?J APPgI?DIX. A. th(? eeltit of* the bty, ?vhere ther? it ? #*pm to nine fbet. IV. hthoms? mud, and the seam has ?ee access: b?t, if N. West t more abitered place is required, such may be found at C?ts�. the m)eth-e?st comet or the bottom of tb bay in six ?vou Fathoms, mud. High water et full and ebang? piece in the eastern entrance, at t quarter past nine the tide rbes about nix ?eet. JAP. ISLAWD is surrounded by !?C?8, ]Mir tO th9 ward of it the channel is twelve Fathoms deep. iU summit is in latitudo 14 �10 ?, !?)?.itude 126 � 40% The western ,id? of Vansittart Bay is formal by t peninsula, the extremity of which is Cape i?mg?inville; the nordtern imrt of this lead is f?onted by a reef, that extends round it for' three miles from the shore, but tim wentertl side nppoared to bo of bold &pprouch. TIM reef commences at O?pe Bon- 8xinville, and trends maud tO Point Gibson, where it terml- auren. This part of the eout is f?onted by exteneive reefs, which render the ap!?. tO it very dangerous: at sixteen miles to tim not. ward of the eupe there in n rsmge, the HOL?TH?YB, IA BA.1W. KS, that extend in un east and west feetion for tw?nt?-tbree miles; their Dorth-eaSt extent was not ascertained, but the western end, in latinode 13 �, and longitude 19? � 45', it liu?row, mid not more than five six mii?s broad. There is another range of reefs to the westward of cape, that extends in a north and south direction for upwards of twnuty nailes; and tbout froin three to five miles broad. The water breaks on many parts of it. Its north extre- mity, in latitude 13 �' , is nixteen miles W.?N. from Troughsou Island: in this space the Belt is quite clear, Mid ritual sixteen tO twenty Fathoms deep. The narroweat part of the ehemtd, between tho reef. end the peninsula, is at