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A. Here the number of the coral reefs begin to increase, and 
Sect. II. great attention must be paid in navigating amongst them ; 
N. East but, with a careful look out from the mast head, and a 
Coast, leadsman in the chains, no danger need be appre- 
hended. 
Between reef a and the shoal off the south-west Hope 
Island there is a passage two miles wide, with twelve 
fathoms : a is about half a mile in diameter, with a few 
rocks above water; its centre is in 15° 43' 20", two miles 
from the shore, and three miles N. 55° W. from the south 
west Hope. 
b is about a mile and a quarter long, and has a dry rock 
at its north end, the latitude of which is 15° 39' 20": it is 
divided from Endeavour Reef by a channel of nearly a mile 
wide, and fifteen fathoms deep : abreast of the south-epd of 
b, on the western edge of Endeavour Reef, there is a dry 
rock, in latitude 15° 39' 55". 
ENDEAVOUR REEF is nine miles long; it lies in a 
N.W. direction; the north end, in 15° 39' S., bears due 
from the North-east Hope. 
C is covered, and not quite half a mile in length ; its lati- 
tude is 15° 32': it lies four miles from the shore. 
d is rather larger, and has some dry rocks on its north 
end, in latitude 15° 29' 30". Between c and d and the 
shore the passage is from three to four miles wide, and in 
mid-channel the depth is seven and eight fathoms. 
On the south side of Point Monkhouse there is a bay 
having a small opening at the bottom, but not deep enough 
for ships : it was this bay that Captain Cook first examined 
in search of a place to repair his ship. 
On steering along the shore between Point Monkhouse 
and the entrance of Endeavour River, the bottom is of 
sand and of irregular depth. A spit of sand was passed 
