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nearly one hundred of them; they are also 

 very incorrectly laid down in the charts as 

 being all about equally distant from one 

 another, whereas there are never more than 

 five or six in one group, and each group is 

 generally many miles distant from another. 



Hope Island is placed in the charts as lying 

 due south from the middle of the Thousand 

 Islands, but its actual position is about forty- 

 five miles due east from Black Point, or nearly 

 one hundrd miles further to the N.E. than the 

 charts make it. This latter grave error is 

 notorious amongst all the sealers, and I satisfied 

 myself, by actual observation, that the position 

 of the island is as I have stated it. 



Black Point and Whalefish Point are the 

 two promontories terminating the chains of 

 mountains which enclose Deeva Bay, and 

 stretch out like a pair of compasses to embrace 

 the archipelago of the Thousand Islands. The 

 seaward sides of both these mountainous pro 

 montories are curiously scarped away, so as to 

 form very steep precipitous faces of bare rock ; 

 and at places where it has room to lie, there is 

 an extensive talus of muddy and shaly detritus 

 brought down from the sides of the mountains 

 by the action of frost and avalanches ; these 



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