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breadth : its length being in the direction of the harbour ; a A. 
very small portion of it is dry, and consists of a few rocks, 
upon which the sea almost always breaks ; they are situated E. Coast, 
upon the outer end of the shoal, and are in the line of bear- 
ing of the Outer North and the Inner South Heads. The 
south-western tail of the bank is chiefly of sand, with rocks 
scattered about it ; but, on the greater portion of it, there is 
twelve feet water; it gradually deepens to three and a 
quarter fathoms, which is beyond the rocky limits of the 
shoal. To sail through the Western Channel, which is from 
one-third to half a mile wide, steer towards George’s Head, 
a high rocky head, about three-quarters of a mile above 
Middle Head, keeping it in sight upon the larboard bow, 
and the sea horizon open between the points of entrance, 
until you are within the line of bearing between a small 
sandy beach on the western shore and Green Point; the 
latter is a grassy mound, the south head of Gamp Cove. 
Then steer for George’s Head, and gradually round it : when 
you have past the line of bearing between it and Green 
Point, and opened the sandy beach of Watson’s Bay, steer 
boldly up the harbour. In rounding Point Bradley, there is 
a rocky shelf that runs off the point for perhaps one hundred 
yards. Pass on either side of Pinch-gut Island, and, in 
hauling into Sydney Cove, avoid a rocky reef that extends 
olF Point Bennilong for rather more than two hundred yards 
into the sea. 
To sail through the Eastern Channel, or to the eastward 
of the Sow and Pigs, — haul round the Inner South Head until 
the summit of the Inner North Head is in a line with the 
inner trend of the former, bearing by compass N. 23^° E. ; 
then steer S.S.W. until you have passed Green Point, when 
the course may be directed at pleasure up the harbour. 
In turning to windward, go no nearer to the Sow and Pigs 
