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patch, with 16 feet water on it; and bearing 197°, distant 700 yards 

 from the southern end of Bad islet and 350 yards offshore, there is a 

 rocky patch with 4rk fathoms water over it. 



The shore westward of Hauling point, the termination of the 

 cliffy shore from Batts cove, forms a small bight with shallow water 

 extending a little beyond the line of its entrance points. Thence the 

 shore is steep-to for ^ mile, where there is a cove with shoal water in 

 it. The shore bends abruptly round the headland on the western 

 side of this cove, forming, northward of the western part of Georges 

 island, a nearly circular basin 700 yards in diameter, with depths of 

 12 to 20 fathoms, which, as it can only be approached through narrow 

 and intricate channels, is not available as a general anchorage. 



Georg-es island is of moderate height and covered with clumps 

 of burnt trees and low scrub, through which the bare limestone rock 

 is visible. The coasts are low and shelving, but only from the north- 

 ern side does shoal water extend more than about 70 yards. 



There is a deep but narrow bight just westward of the northeastern 

 end of the island, and off' the western entrance point of this bight 

 is Steering rock, a small island 3 feet high, connected Avith the point 

 by a shelf of shoal ground. 



Western tickle, the channel westward of Georges island, is barred 

 at its northern end by a shelf of gravel and mud, with 7 feet water 

 over it, but southward of the bar, in a bay rather more than 200 

 yards in width, formed by a bend in the coast of the island, there is 

 anchorage for a vessel of moderate size in 8 fathoms. 



Anchorage. — There is good anchorage northwestward of Steering 

 rock in 7 to 11 fathoms, mud bottom. This position is easily ap- 

 proached and affords for vessels of moderate size the most sheltered 

 anchorage in Sops arm. Large vessels anchor northeastward of 

 Steering rock in 9 to 14 fathoms, avoiding a small mud patch of 27 

 feet, bearing 00°, distant 400 yards from the rock, and rather more 

 than 200 yards off the northern shore. 



The Tickle is the channel extending from Hauling point to Shell- 

 bird islet and passing between Georges and Sops islands. Abreast 

 of Hauling point this channel is about 320 yards wide: it is deep and 

 clear of shoals soutliAvestward to the northeastern point of Georges 

 island : then the water shoals to 6 and 9 fathoms over spits extending 

 from either side. 



A detached rock, with 14 feet of water over it, bears 350°, distant 

 300 yards from Shellbird islet, leaving a deep channel, about 500 feet 

 in width between the rock and Shellbird islet. 



Leading- mark. — Hauling point in line with the westernmost 

 point of the northwestern headland of Sops island, bearing 35°, 

 leads just northwestward of Shellbird islet, which is steep-to and 



