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k (latitude 21° O', longitude 149° 52' 30") is nearly a mile 
and a quarter in diameter, and has a considerable reef 
stretching for more than a mile and a half off both its north- 
west and south-east ends ; on the latter is a small rocky islet. 
k 2 (in latitude 20° 58', longitude 149° 44' 55",) is of 
hummocky shape ; it has also a reef olF its south-east and 
north-west ends, stretching off at least a mile. On the 
south-east reef is a dry rocky islet. 
THREE ROCKS, in latitude 20° 56|', are small islets 
of moderate height. All these islands are surrounded by 
deep water. The variation here is about 6f° East. • 
k 4, in latitude 20° 53' 10", and k 4 in lat. 20° 58', 
and the two sandy islets to the westward of them, were seen 
only at a distance. 
1, in latitude 20° 51' lO",™! 1, in latitude 20° 54' 10,' con 
taining two islands, — 1 3, in latitude 20° 44' 15", — and 1 4, 
in latitude 20° 45' 30", are also high, but we were not nearer 
to them than six or seven miles; 1 2, in latitude 20° 45' 40", 
longitude 149° 33' 55", is the island on which Captain 
Flinders landed, and describes in vol. ii. p. 94; he says, 
“ This little island is of triangular shape, and each side of it 
is a mile long ; it is surrounded by a coral reef. The time of 
high water took place one hour before the moon’s passage, 
as it had done among the barrier reefs ; from ten to fifteen 
feet seemed to be the rise by the shore, and the flood came 
from the northward.” The variation near 1 2 is 6° 17' E. 
m is a high, bluff* island, the peaked summit of which, in 
latitude 20° 46' 35", and longitude 149° 15' 15", is eight 
hundred and seventy-four feet high : there are several islets 
off its south-east end, and one off its north-west end. 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
SIR JAMES SMITH’S GROUP consists often or twelve 
