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CHAP, the harbour, and discovered some sunken rocks to the southward of the 
entrance to the port, on which account ships should not close the land 
June, in that direction, so as to shut in two paps at the north-east angle of 
1^2/. Lloyd with the south bluff of the harbour. With these objects 
open there is no danger. 
On the 15th of June, we put to sea from Port Lloyd ; and finding 
the wind still from the southward, and that we could not reach the 
islands in that direction without much loss of time, 1 bore away to 
ascertain the northern limit of the group. We ran along the western 
shore, and at noon on the l6th observed the meridian altitude off the 
northernmost islet. The group consists of three clusters of islands lying 
nearly N. by E., and extending from the latitude of 27° 44' 35" N. to 
26° 30' N. and beyond, but that was the utmost limit of our view to 
the southward. The northern cluster consists of small islands and 
pointed rocks, and has much broken ground about it which renders 
caution necessary in approaching it. 1 distinguished it by the name 
of Parry’s Group, in compliment to the late hydrographer, under whose 
command I had the pleasure to serve on the northern expedition. The 
middle cluster consists of three islands, of which Peel’s Island, four 
miles and a fifth in length, is the largest. This group is nine miles 
and a quarter in length, and is divided by two channels so narrow that 
they can only be seen when abreast of them. Neither of them are 
navigable by shipping ; the northern, on account of rocks which render 
it impassable even by boats, and the other on account of rapid tides 
and eddies, which, as there is no anchoring ground, would, most likely, 
drift a ship upon the rocks. The northern island I named Stapleton, 
and the centre Buckland, in compliment to the Professor of Geology at 
Oxford. At the south-west angle of Buckland Island there is a sandy 
bay, in which ships will find good anchorage, but they must be careful 
in bringing up to avoid being carried out of soundings by the current. 
It is named Walker’s Bay, after Mr. Walker of the Hydrographical 
Office. The southern cluster is evidently that in which a whale ship com- 
manded by Mr. Coffin anchored in 1823, who was the first to communicate 
its position to this country, and who bestowed his own name upon the 
port. As the cluster was, however, left without any distinguishing 
