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In latitude 18° 49', nine miles from the shore, and six 
miles within the island No. 2, is a coral reef, that shews 
at low water : it appeared to be about two miles long ; 
between it and No. 2 is a wide channel with nine fathoms. 
The Lady Elliot, merchant ship, in 1815, struck upon a reef 
in 18° 45", about four miles from the shore; of which we 
saw nothing ; we anchored within four miles of its position, 
but, at daylight, when we got under weigh, it might have 
been covered by the tide. 
In 18° 32' and 146° 41' is a reef, on which the San 
Antonio, merchant brig, struck: its position was not cor- 
rectly ascertained, as the accident happened in the night. 
POINT HILLOCK is in latitude 18° 25', and longitude 
146° 20' ; it is a low point projecting to the eastward, under 
Mount Hinchinbrook. 
CAPE SANDWICH is the north-east extremity of the 
sandy land that stretches to the northward from the base of 
Mount Hinchinbrook, which* is so high as to be visible for 
eighteen leagues : the mount is topped with a craggy sum- 
mit, seven miles in length from north to south. 
There is a reef that extends for nearly a mile and a half 
off the cape, having a rocky islet at its extremity. The cape 
is in latitude 18° 13' 20", and longitude 146° 16' 40". The 
peak at the north end of Mount Hinchinbrook is in latitude 
18° 21' 30", and longitude 146° 15. 
BROOKE’S ISLANDS lie four miles north from Cape 
Sandwich ; they consist of three rocky islets, besides some 
of smaller size ; the whole are surrounded by a coral reef. 
From Cape Sandwich the land extends, low and sandy, in 
a N.W, direction for five miles to a point, which is ter- 
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N. East 
Coast. 
