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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
nine miles and a half deep, and thirteen wide, the western 
side being formed by Flinders’s Group. A reef extends for 
more than two miles off Cape Melville in a N.W.b.N. di- 
rection, on which some rounded stones, similar to those 
upon the land, are heaped up above the sea : there is also 
one of these heaps at the extremity of the reef, outside, 
and within a quarter of a mile of which we had fourteen 
fathoms water : there are tv/o other similar heaps within the 
outer pile, and between them there are possibly clear pas- 
sages, but they should not be attempted without great 
caution. It was remarked that the breeze always freshened 
on passing round this cape. 
PIPON ISLANDS, two small islets, of which the east- 
ernmost is the largest, are in latitude 14° 6' 40", longi- 
tude 144° 26' 5"; they are surrounded by a reef, lying two 
miles and a half from the cape ; between them and the reef 
that extends from the cape, there is a safe and deep passage 
of more than a mile wide. 
The south-east side of Bathurst Bay is shoal. At the 
bottom are two openings, with some projecting land be- 
tween them, at the extremity of which there is a peak; 
these openings are doubtless rivulets of considerable size, 
and take their rise from the high land at the back of Cape 
Bowen. 
FLINDERS’S GROUP forms the west head of Bathurst 
Bay ; they are high and rocky, and consist of four islands, 
two of which are three miles long. The peak of the largest 
island, in latitude 14° lU 5", and longitude 144° 12' 5", 
is visible from a distance of twelve or thirteen leagues ; 
and the higher parts of the islands may be seen generally at 
seven or eight leagues. 
