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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
All the islands are low and wooded, and surrounded by a 
coral reef of small extent. 
4. has a small islet off its west end. 
5. 8. and 9. did not appear to have any reefs projecting 
from them. 7 is probably two islands, with a reef ex- 
tending for half a mile on its western side. 6 is of larger 
size than the generality of the low islands hereabout, No. 1. 
excepted : its centre is in latitude 14° 28', and longitude 
144° 45'. The position of No. 10. was not correctly ascer- 
tained. 
The peak of CAPE BOWEN is in latitude 14° 34', and 
longitude 144° 35' 40". 
NOBLE ISLAND is a rock, having a sandy, or a coral 
beach at its north-west end ; although small it is very 
conspicuous ; and, when first seen from the southward, has 
the appearance of a rock with a double rounded top. 
The Reefs s, t, and U are unconnected ; the north end of 
S, lying six miles and a half due east from Point Barrow, 
was dry for a considerable extent ; t, one mile to the north, 
was covered ; but there is a dry sandy key on u» bearing from 
Point Barrow, N. 32° E., six miles : some rocks shewed them- 
selves above the water oflT its south end. 
V and w laay possibly be connected ; the former was 
noticed to extend for three miles, and the latter for nearly 
ten miles ; there was, however, a space of three miles be- 
tween them, where a channel may possibly exist. The 
channels between t and u, and between v and W, appeared 
to be clear and deep. 
The Reefs x? y, and 2, are probably parts of the barrier 
