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CAPE YORK. 





Mr. Macgillivray afterwards examined the inside 

 of the pile, and found human bones belonging to 

 more than one individual, but no complete skeleton, 

 nor even an entire skull. 



Immediately south of Cape York Island the land 

 rises into a pretty-sharply- peaked hill, called Bremer 

 Peak, which is 420 feet high. Immediately to the 

 eastward of this is a shallow recess or bay, with a 

 small rocky patch above water in the centre of it, 

 about a mile from the shore. The bay is surrounded 

 by a flat sandy beach, at the back of which is a belt 

 of jungle composed of many kinds of broad-leaved 

 trees, and one or two species of palm. Behind this 



