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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
under the summit; with the high north ernmos.t of the Di- 
rection Islands in sight over the low land, bearing about 
S.E. by compass : the depth is six and seven fathoms sandy 
bottom. The variation here is 5° 2' East. 
TURTLE GROUP is four miles to the north of Point Look- 
out ; the islets are encircled by a horse-shoe shaped coral 
reef, and consist of six islands, all low and bushy. These 
islands are not laid down with sufficient accuracy as to their 
relative positions. 
n is a low wooded island about eleven miles west from 
Lizard Island ; no reef was seen to project from it ; it is in 
the meridian of the observatory of Endeavour River ; and 
in latitude 14° 40'. 
O is a small coral reef ; it lies a mile and a half N. 64° W, 
from the north end of n. 
p is a coral reef, about a mile in extent, separated from 
0 by a channel of a mile wide. 
q, a reef, on which are two low wooded isles, apparently 
connected with a shoal extending from Point Lookout along 
the shore to the W.N.W. ; the isles are seven miles N. 64° 
W. from Point Lookout. 
COLES ISLANDS consist of four small bushy islets 
from a quarter to half a mile in extent; they are from four 
to six miles N.E. from Point Murdoch. This group ap- 
peared to be merely the several dry parts of the shoal that 
extends from Point Lookout to Noble Island; between them 
arid the latter island, are two patches of dry saridy keys, 
