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tends towards Bolt Head, and forms several sinuosities, one 
of which is Weymouth Bay of Captain Cook; the shores 
of the bay were not well examined 
FAIR CAPE, so named by Lieutenant Bligh, is a pro- 
jection of high land, in latitude 12° 25', Ion. 143° 11' 15": 
it has a reef off it according to Lieutenant Jeffrey’s ac- 
count, but its situation does not appear to have been cor- 
rectly ascertained : we did not see it. 
BOLT HEAD is the north-west end of the high land 
at the south end of Temple Bay. It is here that the high 
land terminates ; the coast to the northward being very low 
and sandy; with the exception of CAPE GRENVILLE, 
which is the rocky projection that forms the north extre- 
mity of Temple Bay. A little to the south of the cape is 
Indian Bay of Lieutenant Bligh. The latitude of Cape 
Grenville’s east trend is 11° 57' 30", its longitude 143° 8'. 
C is a coral reef, with a dry sandy key at its northern 
end, in latitude 12° 35' 20", longitude 143° 25' 15"; it is 
about two miles long. 
d, a small oval-shaped reef in the channel between c 
and e: it is covered, and has perhaps twelve feet water 
over it. 
e is an extensive coral reef, fourteen miles long, com- 
mencing in latitude 12° 32|', and extending to 12° 24'; and 
in longitude 143° 16': it is entirely covered, except a few dry 
rocks at its north-west end : the south-eastern extremity of 
* There is a dry sand four or five miles N.W. from Cape Wey- 
mouth . — Roe MS» 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
