SAILING DIRECTIONS, 
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The offing is said to be strewed with extensive reefs ; we 
saw none beyond Green Island : those that are laid down on 
the chart are from Lieutenant Jeffrey’s account*. 
SNAPPER ISLAND lies off the point which forms the 
northern limit of Trinity Bay ; it is small, and does not 
supply any water t. 
The land behind Cape Tribulation may be seen at a 
greater distance than twenty leagues. It is here that the 
outer part of the barrier reefs approach the coast, and there 
is reason to believe that, in latitude 16° 17' 35", longitude 
145° 27' 40", they are not more than twenty miles from it. 
The cape has a hillock at its extremity, and a small rocky 
islet close to the shore that renders it conspicuous : it is 
fourteen miles beyond Snapper Island. The shore appears 
to be bold to : at three miles off we had sixteen fathoms. 
Ten miles further to the northward is Blomfield’s Ri- 
vulet in Weary Bay : it is blocked up by a rocky bar, 
having only four feet water over it; the anchorage off it 
is too much exposed to be safe. The river runs up for four 
or five miles, having soundings within it from three to four 
fathoms, its entrance is in 15° 55' 50". 
The coast then extends to the north to Endeavour River, 
and forms a few inconsiderable sinuosities ; it is backed by 
high land, particularly abreast of the Hope Islands. These 
islands open of each other in a N. 39° E. direction, and ap- 
pear to be connected by a shoal ; it is however very likely 
that a narrow passage may exist between them, but cer- 
tainly not safe to sail through. 
* Much shoal water was seen, to the northward of Green Island, 
from the Tamar’s mast head.—^oe MS. 
t Ten or eleven miles S. 89° E. from 'Snapper Island is the 
north-west end of a shoal, extending to the S. E.for sixteen or 
seventeen miles ; the Tamar anchored under it.— Boe MS. 
A. 
Sect. 11. 
N. East 
Coast. 
