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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
In passing SHOAL POINT, in latitude 21° 0' 5", longi- 
tude 149° 7' 40", Captain Cook’s ship got into shoal water, 
and at one time had as little as three fathoms (Hawkesworth, 
vol. iii. p. 131); and the merchant ship Lady Elliot, in the 
year 1815, met with a sand bank extending from the island 
off the point in a north-east direction for ten miles, on one 
part of which she found only nine feet water. 
The Mermaid passed the point at the distance of three 
miles, and, when the island bore S. 68° W., distant two 
miles and a half, had four and three-quarter fathoms, which 
was the least water that was found, but, being then high 
water, five or six feet, if not more, may be deducted, to 
reduce it to the proper low water sounding. There was no 
appearance of shoaler water near us, and it is probable that 
Captain Cook’s and the Lady Elliot’s tracks were farther off 
shore. The variation of the compass, six miles east of 
Point Slade, was 7° 1 T East. 
CAPE HILSBOROUGH is a projection terminating in a 
bluff point in latitude 20° 53' 40", and longitude 149° 0' 
15": being high land, it may be seen seven or eight leagues 
off. The variation here is 6° 30' E. 
The CUMBERLAND ISLES extend between the parallels 
of 20° and 21° 6', and consist, generally, of elevated, rocky 
islands; they are all abundantly wooded, particularly with 
pines, which grow to a larger size than at the Percy Isles. 
We did not land upon any of them ; they appeared to be of 
bold approach, and not dangerous to navigate amongst; 
they are from six to eight hundred feet high, and some of 
the peaks on the northern island are much higher. 
k 1 (latitude 21° 5' 40", longitude 149° 54' 25") is about 
three-quarters of a mile in diameter ; it is of peaked shape ; 
at three-quarters of a mile off its south-east end, there is a 
dry rocky lump. 
