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of brackish taste. It is high water at full and change at 
eight o’clock, and the tide rises from five to ten feet. The Sect. IF. 
variation of the observatory was 5° 14' E. N.~^ast 
Coast. 
CAPE BEDFORD (latitude 15° 16' 19", longitude 
145° 17' 19",) is high, and forms a steep slope to the sea: it 
appeared to be bold to Between it and Cape Flattery is 
a bay backed by low land, about five miles deep ; but it is 
exposed to the wind, unless there is anchorage under the 
north-west end of Cape Bedford. 
CAPE FLATTERY is eighteen miles north of Cape Bed- 
ford : its extremity is high and rocky, and forms two distinct 
hills. The summit of the cape is in latitude 14° 52' 30", and 
longitude 145° 16' 10". t 
Eleven miles beyond the cape, in a N. 45° W. direction, 
is POINT LOOKOUT, forming a peaked hill at the extre- 
mity of a low sandy projection, whence the land trends 
W.b.N.I^N. for twelve leagues to Cape Bowen. 
e, a reef nearly three miles long and one broad : its north 
end is twelve miles nearly due East from the entrance of 
Endeavour River, in latitude 15° 26' 50", longitude 145° 
23' 30". 
TURTLE REEF was visited by Mr. Bedwell, it is covered 
at high water, excepting a small spot of sand, about the 
size of the boat, at its north end in latitude 15° 23', longitude 
145° 22' 50" : its interior is occupied, like most others, by a 
* Shoal water extends for nearly a mile round Cape Bedford. — 
Roe MS, 
t There are some dangerous shoals to the eastward of Point 
Lookout, and to the northward of Cape Flattery, about two miles 
apart from each other, situated in what was considered to be tfie 
fair channeh-^iRoe MS, 
