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APPENDIX. 
A. changed to that of New Castle, and the appellation of the 
Se^I. Qoal River has partly superseded the more legitimate name 
E. Coast, of Port Hunter. 
PORT STEPHENS is easy to enter, but hot to sail from, 
unless the wind is fair, on account of the shoals that are 
near its entrance. Point Stephens is in latitude 32° 46J', 
longitude 1 52° 9' 45". 
BLACK HEAD is an island, behind which there is very 
good anchorage; the head is in latitude 32° 38' 20". Between 
Black Head, and the hills called the Brothers, are Wal- 
lis’s Lake, in latitude 32° IP 50", Harrington’s Lake, in 
32° O', and Farquhar’s Lake, in latitude 31° 54'; they 
were discovered by Lieutenant Oxley on his return from his 
land journey in 1819; they have all shoal entrances, and are 
merely the outlets of extensive lagoons, which receive the 
streams from the hills, and occupy a considerable space be- 
tween the coast and the mountains. 
In latitude 31° 47' 50", and at the distance of two miles 
and a quarter from the shore, is a dangerous reef, on which 
the sea constantly breaks ; it was named by Lieutenant 
Oxley, who discovered it, the Mermaid’s Reef ; it is about 
a quarter of a mile in extent, and bears S. 85° E. from the 
South Brother ; a small detached portion of the reef is se- 
parated from the principal rock, within which there ap- 
peared to be a narrow navigable channel. A quarter of a 
mile without the latter we found sixteen fathoms water. 
Round the point under the North Brother Hill, is CAMDEN 
HAVEN, the particulars respecting its entrance (in latitude 
31° 41', longitude 152°) are not yet known, but it is 
supposed to be very shoal. 
