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A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
] 823, and found it to be under the following bearings (by 
compass): viz, Cape Flinders, S.W.b.W. fW. ; the high 
peak on the south-east part of Flinders’s Group, S. ^ W. ; 
the highest of Clack’s Islands, N.W.|-W., and Cape Melville, 
E. -i S. It is a dangerous shoal in running for Cape Flin- 
ders, but may be easily avoided by steering near the low 
wooded island, to the north-east of the cape, or by keeping 
the shore of Flinders’s Group on board, which is perhaps 
preferable. The variation is 5° 40' East 
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE’S BAY is an extensive bight 
in the coast, twenty-two miles deep, and thirty-one broad ; 
its shores are low, and at the bottom, in latitude 14° 29', 
there is a mangrove opening. 
JANE’S TABLE LAND, in latitude 14° 29' 15", and lon- 
gitude 144° 4' 45", is a remarkable flat- topped hill at the 
bottom of the bay, rising abruptly from the surrounding low 
land : it is about five miles from the coast ; its summit, by 
the angle it subtended, is about a mile in length. Excepting 
this hill, no other high land was seen at the bottom of the 
bay. 
On the western side the land rises to a moderate height, 
and forms a bank of about ten miles in extent, but this was 
not visible for more than three or four leagues. To the 
north of this no part of the interior can be seen until in 
latitude 13° 55', when the south end of a ridge of hills com- 
mences at about seven miles behind the beach, which it 
gradually approaches until it reaches the coast in 13° 35', 
* The shoal is in a line with, and half way between, the flat- 
topped hill on the north island of Flinders’s Group, and the centre 
of the low wooded island, and is nearly joined to some shoal-water 
that extends for two miles from the latter island . — Roe MS, 
