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APPENDIX. 
A. 
Sect. II. 
N. East 
Coast. 
the reef is perhaps three or four miles wide, but its eastern 
termination was not clearly distinguished. 
f is a small reef, about three miles S.W. from QUOIN 
ISLAND, which is a small wedge-shaped rock: it is in the 
neighbourhood of this reef that the merchant ship, Morning 
Star, was lost. Quoin Island is in latitude 12° 24', and 
longitude 143° 23' 50". 
g is a coral reef, ten miles long, and from one to two broad ; 
having a dry rock upon it, (in latitude 12° 18' 20", and Ion- ' 
gitude 143° 14' 35",) about three miles from its north end. 
FORBES’S ISLANDS are high and rocky, but appeared 
to be clothed with vegetation ; the group occupies a space 
of about two miles. The summit of Forbes’s Island is in 
latitude 12° 16' 35", and longitude 143° 18' 50". 
h, a coral reef, with some dry rocks near its north end, 
is about one mile long, and separated from i by a narrow 
pass. The south end of h bears from the summit of Forbes’s 
Island W.^ S. seven miles. 
i and k, coral reefs, lying N.W., having a very narrow 
channel between them ; the former is covered, but the latter 
has a dry sandy key at its north-west end, in lat. 12° 12' 20", 
and longitude 143° 10' 5". 
PIPER’S ISLETS are four low bushy islets upon two 
circular reefs, with a passage separating them of a quarter 
of a mile wide ; the reefs have each two islets upon them, 
and a dry rocky key round their western edge: the centre of 
the narrowest part of the channel between them is twelve 
