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servations were made on this point, and the results 

 were as follow : Lat. IT 3?' 30" S., Long. 1 P 16|' 

 E. of Port Essino'ton. 



Jtd?/ 10. — The morning broke with the same 

 dull, gloomy weather, the wind fresh at S. E. and 

 continued thus during the day, slightly diversified 

 by a few passing rain squalls. Soon after daylight 

 we were again on our passage, the cloudy weather 

 enabling us to make out the Eastern reefs, which at 

 high water are covered, and consequently difficult 

 to be seen in that direction in the morning. They 

 front Quoin and Forbes' Islands, remarkable rocky 

 lumps, more so, however, from the extreme lowness 

 of those in their vicinity, than from their own mag- 

 nitude. The latter was found to be 340 feet high. 

 A N. W. by N. course from Restoration brought 

 us to Piper Islands. The soundings were from 11 

 to 13 fathoms, with a greater proportion of sand in 

 the quality of the bottom than had been before 

 noticed. Passinof between them and reefs H. and I. 

 also between Young Island (an elevated reef, with 

 one small mangrove growing on the highest part) 

 and reef M., we hauled up N. E. by N. round the 

 north end of the latter, to weather Sir Everard 

 Home's Islands, a low group connected by shoal water 

 and extending about four miles from Cape Grenville. 

 We passed midway between them and Haggerston's 

 Islands, a square lump 240 feet high. Sir Charles 

 Hardy's and the Cockburn Isles are also con- 

 spicuous objects in this neighbourhood, particularly 

 the former, which is visible from outside the 



