SAILING DIR?'F[ONS. 351 tatde 12? 10'? frmn the north?u'd it has tho appeurnne? of hei? an island, us the land to the westward is r?ther lower ! Seer, IV', two mil?s and a half south of it is Carlisle Head, the north N, West oatremlty of OOODBJ?OUdH BAY. Tim shore thenco atentis in st $.S.E. direction for seventeen miles, in which spree there is ?t shoal bay, beard which we did not penetrate, Off the point is an islet, in latitude about l{J �, and to the bouth st it the land *?s seet? trending to the $,b.l?. For four or ?ve miles, when it was 10st in distance. From this M?ehorage no !and Was did- tin?tly seen to the eastward; between the bearings of E.N.E. and 8,8.]t.., a slight glimmering of land was raised aboye the horison? by the e?eet of refraction; but this, as in a ease that occurred before in u neighbouring part off Point Gan, theuume, might be at least f?f? miles off. Prom 811 that is at present known of this remarkable opening, there is enough to excite the greatest interest; since, from the extent of the opening, the rapidity of the stream, and ?he ?eat rise nnd fall of the tides, there must he st very extensive gulf or opening, total!? different fro? evut'y thing that hnf? been before seen. There is also good reason to adspeet that the land tween Cape L?v?que and Point (3anthe?tum? is an i-?la?d and if so, the mouth of this opening i8 eight m?le8 wide besides, Who is to say that the land even of Cape �illaret may not also be ? island? The French expeditiofi only a&w sm?11 portions of the coast to the [outhward; but it does ?ot nppear probable that the opening extends to the south, ward of Cape �ilhret. (See vol. it. p. Thirty-three miles'in f? N. 14 �di?eetlon from the summit of CtJl?reili Island is AI)?LE 1SLANt). It is low, and merely covered wi? s few shrube? and is about three
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