SAILING DIRECTIONS. 
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The Mermaid was nearly lost in attempting to cross the 
latter reef. (Vol. i. p. 381.) 
CLAREMONT ISLES consist of five small islets, num- 
bered from 1 to 5; they are of coral formation, and are 
covered with small brush-wood ; they are from six to seven 
miles apart, excepting 4 and 5, which are separated by a 
channel only a mile and a half wide : off the east and south- 
east end of 5, a coral reef extends for a mile and a half to 
the eastward, having two dry rocks on its north-east end. 
Latitude. Longitude. 
Claremont Isle, No. 1, in 13° 56' 20", 143° 40' 30" 
2 13 51 30, 143 37 30 
3 13 46 45, 143 33 20 
4 13 40 00, 143 36 20. 
Reef 0 extends in an east and west direction for a mile 
and a half, and at a mile farther there is another reef, that 
may be connected to it ; O has a dry sand near its western 
extremity, in latitude 13° 34', and longitude 143° 38' 45". 
Islet 6, in latitude 13° 29', longitude 143° 38' 26", is a 
very small, low, woody islet, with a reef extending for three- 
quarters of a mile off its north and south ends. 
, A reef lies two miles and one-third N. 72^° W. from 
islet 6, and S. 59° E. from the summit of Cape Sidmouth ; 
this reef is not more than a quarter of a mile in extent, and 
has a rock in its centre, that is uncovered at half tide ; it is a 
brown looking shoal, and therefore of dangerous approach. 
Off ROUND HILL there is a sand-bank covered by the 
sea; it lies about two miles from the shore, and about 
£.N.E. from Round Hill summit. 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
